Knowledge And Text Production In An Age Of Print China 9001400 Sinica Leidensia Edited By Lucille Chia And Hilde De Weerdt by Edited By Lucille Chia And Hilde De Weerdt 9789004192287, 900419228X instant download after payment.

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.