Knowledge and Text Production in an Age of Print: China, by Edited by Lucille Chia and Hilde De Weerdt

By Edited by Lucille Chia and Hilde De Weerdt

The essays during this quantity search to flesh out the variety of chinese language textual creation in the course of the interval spanning the 10th and fourteenth centuries whilst printing grew to become a frequent expertise. via exploring the social and political relatives that formed the construction and replica of revealed texts, the influence of highbrow and spiritual formations on publication construction, the interplay among print and different media, readership, and the expansion of collections, the members provide the 1st complete exam of the cultural background of publication creation within the first 500 years of the background of printing. In an afterword historian of the early smooth ecu ebook, Ann Blair, displays at the volume's implications for the comparative learn of the impression of printing.

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6. 24 lucille chia and hilde de weerdt the literate elite. In Emperor Mingzong’s 明宗 (r. 926–33) words, “If anyone wishes to transcribe the Classics, he must copy these printed editions. ”53 The objective to develop standard editions of foundational texts was retained during the early Song period, as the re-established Directorate of Education published standard printed editions of the dynastic histories (McLaren) and medical canonical texts (Hinrichs). The Directorate was not only charged with setting authoritative editions, but also with monitoring texts printed by commercial, local government, and private entities.

The climate of viciously partisan politics that dominated the last seventy years of the Northern Song surely factored into the production of such imprints. Just as the controversial New Policies of Wang Anshi 王安石 were being implemented, early in Shenzong’s 神宗 (r. 20 A similar tactic seems to have been used by those out of favor during Huizong’s 徽宗 reign (r. 1100–25). We read of spurious copies of the court gazette (chaobao 朝報) that were put 16 SHY (2), “Chongru” 4/7, entry dated Jingyou 4/10/17 (1037), and “Xuanju” 3/18, entry dated Jingyou 5/1/8 (1038).

Joseph Dennis provides examples of how the practice of borrowing led to the recovery and printing of rare items. 42 The experience of loss as well as the experience of accumulation are reflected in the testimony of Song Dynasty writers and collectors. In the absence of systematic and unambiguous statistics on book production before and during this period, these papers substantiate and flesh out through the combination of fragmentary and rough quantitative information and qualitative data the conclusion that during the eleventh and twelfth centuries books became more widely available than they had ever been and were increasingly circulating in print.

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