Knowledge and text production in an age of print : China, 900-1400 / / edited by Lucille Chia and Hilde De Weerdt.

• Superior document: Sinica Leidensia, v. 100
• Author: First Impressions: the Cultural History of Print in Imperial China (8th-14th Centuries) (Conference)
• TeilnehmendeR: Chia, Lucille.; De Weerdt, Hilde Godelieve Dominique.; First Impressions: the Cultural History of Print in Imperial China (8th-14th Centuries) (Conference)
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Sinica Leidensia ; v. 100.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (446 p.)
• Notes: "The essays in this volume come mostly out of the conference, 'First Impressions: The Cultural History of Print in Imperial China (8th-14th centuries),' that took place at the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University, June 25-27, 2007"--Acknowledgements.

The essays in this volume seek to flesh out the diversity of Chinese textual production during the period spanning the tenth and fourteenth centuries when printing became a widely used technology. By exploring the social and political relations that shaped the production and reproduction of printed...