Black tigers
Subtitle: a grammar of Chinese rubbings
By: Kenneth Starr.
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Seattle
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780295988115; 9780295988269
Subjects: Rubbing -- China
Description: "In Black Tigers, Kenneth Starr recounts what he has seen and learned in fifty years of fascination with rubbings and travels to China in search of the early inscriptions from which they came. The book is a history of rubbings, a guide to connoisseurship, and a technical handbook on the materials and techniques used to make rubbings. Now readers of English, with the author as their affable guide, can gain rich insight into a rigorous discipline of classical scholarship, the way in which traditional scholars viewed their world, and some of the exquisite subtleties of Chinese high culture and connoisseurship." "Black Tigers will be an essential resource for students of Chinese art, history, calligraphy, archaeology, and the history of printing."--book jacket.
Notes: Errata slip inserted.

"A China program book."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 260-270) and index.