Part one of the fifth volume of Joseph Needham's great enterprise is written by one of the project's collaborators. Professor Tsien Tsuen-Hsuin, working in regular consultation with Dr Needham, has written the most comprehensive account of every aspect of paper and printing in China to be published in the West. From a close study of the vast mass of source material, Professor Tsien brings order and illumination to an area of technology which has been of profound importance in the spread of civilisation. The main body of the book is a detailed study of the invention, technology and aesthetic development of printing in China. From the growth and ultimate refinements of early woodcut printing to the spread of printing from movable type and the development of book-binding, Professor Tsien carries the story forward to the beginning of the nineteenth century when 'more printed pages existed in Chinese than in all other languages put together'.
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"[An] astonishing and enduring study...[Needham brings] depth of emotion and technical finesse to his task."
Jonathan Spence, New York Review of Books
"Perhaps the greatest single act of historical synthesis and intercultural communication ever attempted by one man."
Laurence Picken, Cambridge University
Jonathan Spence, New York Review of Books
"Perhaps the greatest single act of historical synthesis and intercultural communication ever attempted by one man."
Laurence Picken, Cambridge University
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Comprehensive historical account of the production and use of iron and steel in China in their political and economic context. The technology that came originally from the West was transformed in China to a large-scale concentrated industry whose relations with the state were a major factor in Chinese history.
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OF all the products from the ancient world, few can compare in significance with the Chinese inventions of paper and printing. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
bronze movable type, kuei vessel, inked rubbings, wooden movable type, making bamboo paper, tshung shu, rattan paper, grotto library, paper armour, old papermaking, cocoon paper, facsimile specimens, paper mulberry bark, imperial printing office, papermaking methods, pine soot, earthenware type, paper mulberry paper, bamboo tablets, paper specimens, bronze type, ink collections, palace editions, imperial auspices, painting manual Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Chang Hsiu-Min, Phan Chi-Hsing, Thien Kung Khai, Tshai Lun, National Academy, Yeh Te-Hui, Later Han, Sung Ying-Hsing, Wen Fang Ssu Phu, Kawase Kazuma, University of Chicago, British Museum, Far Eastern Library, Northern Sung, Hou Han Shu, Marco Polo, New York, Southern Sung, Former Han, Shih Chi, Academia Sinica, Chhi Min, Nagasawa Kikuya, Thai Phing, Wang Chen New!
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bronze movable type, kuei vessel, inked rubbings, wooden movable type, making bamboo paper, tshung shu, rattan paper, grotto library, paper armour, old papermaking, cocoon paper, facsimile specimens, paper mulberry bark, imperial printing office, papermaking methods, pine soot, earthenware type, paper mulberry paper, bamboo tablets, paper specimens, bronze type, ink collections, palace editions, imperial auspices, painting manual Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Chang Hsiu-Min, Phan Chi-Hsing, Thien Kung Khai, Tshai Lun, National Academy, Yeh Te-Hui, Later Han, Sung Ying-Hsing, Wen Fang Ssu Phu, Kawase Kazuma, University of Chicago, British Museum, Far Eastern Library, Northern Sung, Hou Han Shu, Marco Polo, New York, Southern Sung, Former Han, Shih Chi, Academia Sinica, Chhi Min, Nagasawa Kikuya, Thai Phing, Wang Chen New!
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