Knowledge and Text Production in an Age of Print: China, 900-1400: 100 (Sinica Leidensia, 100) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 900419228X ISBN 13: 9789004192287

Publisher: Brill, 2011

Synopsis

The essays in this volume seek to flesh out the diversity of Chinese textual production during the period spanning the tenth and fourteenth centuries when printing became a widely used technology. By exploring the social and political relations that shaped the production and reproduction of printed texts, the impact of intellectual and religious formations on book production, the interaction between print and other media, readership, and the growth of collections, the contributors offer the first comprehensive examination of the cultural history of book production in the first 500 years of the history of printing. In an afterword historian of the early modern European book, Ann Blair, reflects on the volume's implications for the comparative study of the impact of printing.

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About the Author

Lucille Chia (Ph.D., Columbia University) is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Riverside. She is the author of Printing for Profit: The Commercial Publishers of Jianyang, Fuijan (11th-17th Centuries) (Harvard University Asia Center, 2003).
Hilde De Weerdt (Ph.D., Harvard University) is University Lecturer in Chinese History at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Pembroke College. She is the author of Competition over Content: Negotiating Standards for the Civil Service Examinations in Imperial China (Harvard University Asia Center, 2007).

Edition details

• Publisher: Brill
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 900419228X
• ISBN 13: 9789004192287
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 448
• Editor: Chia Lucille, Weerdt Hilde De