| ISBN |
900419228X (hbk.) |
| 9789004192287 (hbk.) |
| Meeting Name |
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 |
| Publisher |
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011 |
| Physical desc. |
[xv], 430 p. ; ill. (b&w) ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Sinica Leidensia 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 etc. |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [385]-410) and index. |
| Contents |
Pt. 1: Change: interpreting accumulation in text production and collecting. 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 -- Pt. 2: Quantification: administrative and religious book production. 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 -- Pt. 3: Choice: media and interoperability in the production of technical knowledge. 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 -- Pt. 4: Control: the art of recycling history in print. 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. |
| Subject |
Printing -- China -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses |
| Books -- China -- History -- 400-1450 -- Congresses |
| Block books, Chinese -- History -- Congresses |
| China -- History -- Song dynasty, 960-1279 -- Congresses |
| China -- History -- Yuan dynasty, 1260-1368 -- Congresses |
| Added name(s) |
Chia, Lucille 1958- ed. |
| De Weerdt, Hilde (Hilde Godelieve Dominique) 1969- ed. |
