page_title: Traditional Chinese bookbinding
hierarchical_section_title: Traditional Chinese bookbinding
caption_attribution_description: English: Scan of front cover of first folio of the facsimile of Qinxue Congshu [Collection of Books on Qin Study] originally published in 1911-31 in China. This facsimile produced in 1996 by Zhonghua Shudian. All Chinese facsimile books bound in traditional format are virtually the same save the title text which is mostly generic.
context_page_description: Traditional Chinese bookbinding, also called stitched binding, is the method of bookbinding that the Chinese, Koreans, Japanese, and Vietnamese used before adopting the modern codex form.
context_section_description: Traditional Chinese bookbinding, also called stitched binding (Chinese: xian zhuang), is the method of bookbinding that the Chinese, Koreans, Japanese, and Vietnamese used before adopting the modern codex form.
caption: An example of a stitched bound book. Front cover of the first folio of Qinxue Congshu.
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