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

SeriesSinica Leidensia, 0169-9563 ; v. 100
Sinica Leidensia ; v. 100. ^A288416
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.
General 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 noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 382-410) and index.
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LCCN 2010049576
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