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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.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.
©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 430 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Sinica Leidensia, 0169-9563 ; v. 100
Sinica Leidensia ; v. 100.
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 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 -- Uses of print in early Quanzhen Daoist texts / Lucille Chia -- Governance through medical texts and the role of print / TJ Hinrichs -- 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 : Record of the three kingdoms / Anne E. McLaren -- Afterword : rethinking western printing with Chinese comparisons / Ann Blair.
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Subject Printing -- China -- History -- Origin and antecedents -- Congresses.
Printing.
China.
History.
Books -- China -- History -- 400-1450 -- Congresses.
Books.
Chronological Term 400-1450
Subject Block books, Chinese -- History -- Congresses.
Block books, Chinese.
China -- History -- Song dynasty, 960-1279 -- Congresses.
China -- History -- Yuan dynasty, 1260-1368 -- Congresses.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
History.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Chia, Lucille.
De Weerdt, Hilde Godelieve Dominique.
Other Form: Print version: First Impressions: the Cultural History of Print in Imperial China (8th-14th Centuries) (Conference) (2007 : Fairbank Center for East Asian Research). Knowledge and text production in an age of print. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011, ©2011 9789004192287 (DLC) 2010049576 (OCoLC)671870272
ISBN 9789004193864 (electronic book)
9004193863 (electronic book)
1283120429
9781283120425
9789004192287
900419228X