TY - BOOK AU - Chia,Lucille AU - De Weerdt,Hilde Godelieve Dominique ED - First Impressions: the Cultural History of Print in Imperial China (8th-14th Centuries) (Conference) ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Knowledge and text production in an age of print: China, 900-1400 T2 - Sinica Leidensia, AV - Z186.C5 F57 2007eb U1 - 686.20951 22 PY - 2011/// CY - Leiden, Boston PB - Brill KW - Printing KW - China KW - History KW - To 1500 KW - Congresses KW - Books KW - 400-1450 KW - Block books, Chinese KW - Song dynasty, 960-1279 KW - Yuan dynasty, 1260-1368 KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - "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; To count grains of sand on the ocean floor : changing perceptions of books and learning in the Song dynasty / Ronald Egan -- Book collecting in Jiangxi during the Song dynasty / Joseph P. McDermott -- Early printing in China viewed from the perspective of local gazetteers / Joseph Dennis -- Early Buddhist illustrated prints in Hangzhou / Shih-shan Susan Huang -- The uses of print in early Quanzhen Daoist texts / Lucille Chia -- Governance through medical texts and the role of print / TJ Hinrichs -- The cultural logics of map reading : text, time and space in printed maps of the Song empire / Hilde De Weerdt -- Chen Jun's outline and details : printing and politics in thirteenth-century -- Pedagogical histories / Charles Hartman -- Challenging official history in the Song and Yuan dynasties : the record of the three kingdoms / Anne E. McLaren -- Afterword : rethinking western printing with Chinese comparisons / Ann Blair; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10470473 ER -