Knowledge and text production in an age of print
Subtitle: China, 900-1400
By: edited by Lucille Chia and Hilde De Weerdt
Contributors: Chia, Lucille; De Weerdt, Hilde Godelieve Dominique
Series: Sinica Leidensia -- v. 100
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 430
ISBN-13: 9789004192287
Copyright date: 2011
Subjects: History; Printing; Congresses; Books; Chinese Block books
Notes: "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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: To count grains of sand on the ocean floor :; title: changing perceptions of books and learning in the Song dynasty  -- Ronald Egan; title: Book collecting in Jiangxi during the Song dynasty  -- Joseph P. McDermott; title: Early printing in China viewed from the perspective of local gazetteers  -- Joseph Dennis; title: Early Buddhist illustrated prints in Hangzhou  -- Shih-shan Susan Huang; title: The uses of print in early Quanzhen Daoist texts  -- Lucille Chia; title: Governance through medical texts and the role of print  -- TJ Hinrichs; title: The cultural logics of map reading :; title: text, time and space in printed maps of the Song empire  -- Hilde De Weerdt; title: Chen Jun's outline and details :; title: printing and politics in thirteenth-century --; title: Pedagogical histories  -- Charles Hartman; title: Challenging official history in the Song and Yuan dynasties :; title: the record of the three kingdoms  -- Anne E. McLaren -- Afterword :; title: rethinking western printing with Chinese comparisons -- Ann Blair.