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Knowledge and text production in an age of print : China, 900-1400

Title
Knowledge and text production in an age of print : China, 900-1400 / edited by Lucille Chia and Hilde De Weerdt.
Author
First Impressions: the Cultural History of Print in Imperial China (8th-14th Centuries) (Conference) (2007 : Fairbank Center for East Asian Research)
Publication
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011, ©2011.

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Additional Authors
  • Chia, Lucille.
  • De Weerdt, Hilde Godelieve Dominique.
Description
xiv, 430 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.
Series Statement
Sinica Leidensia, 0169-9563 ; v. 100
Uniform Title
Sinica Leidensia ; v. 100.
Subjects
Note
  • "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.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
To count grains of sand on the ocean floor : changing perceptions of books and learning in the Song dynasty / Ronald Egan -- Book collecting in Jiangxi during the Song dynasty / Joseph P. McDermott -- Early printing in China viewed from the perspective of local gazetteers / Joseph Dennis -- Early Buddhist illustrated prints in Hangzhou / Shih-shan Susan Huang -- The uses of print in early Quanzhen Daoist texts / Lucille Chia -- Governance through medical texts and the role of print / TJ Hinrichs -- The cultural logics of map reading : text, time and space in printed maps of the Song empire / Hilde De Weerdt -- Chen Jun's outline and details : printing and politics in thirteenth-century -- Pedagogical histories / Charles Hartman -- Challenging official history in the Song and Yuan dynasties : the record of the three kingdoms / Anne E. McLaren -- Afterword : rethinking western printing with Chinese comparisons / Ann Blair.
Call Number
JFE 11-1768
ISBN
  • 9789004192287 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 900419228X (hardback : alk. paper)
LCCN
2010049576
OCLC
671870272
Conference
First Impressions: the Cultural History of Print in Imperial China (8th-14th Centuries) (Conference) (2007 : Fairbank Center for East Asian Research)
Title
Knowledge and text production in an age of print : China, 900-1400 / edited by Lucille Chia and Hilde De Weerdt.
Imprint
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011, ©2011.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Sinica Leidensia, 0169-9563 ; v. 100
Sinica Leidensia ; v. 100.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Chia, Lucille.
De Weerdt, Hilde Godelieve Dominique.
Research Call Number
JFE 11-1768
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