Author: Library Company of Philadelphia
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Published: 1856
Total Pages: 1154
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Published: 1859
Total Pages: 546
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Georg Lehner
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2011-05-10
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9004206981
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book shows the ways in which English, French, and German eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century encyclopaedias dealt with things Chinese, offering an analysis of the broad variety of sources and an overview of the main strands of discourse on China.
Author: Jean-Pierre Drège
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2024-08-19
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 3110701723
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Paper has become the most common writing material worldwide in the course of a two millennia history. This study provides a magisterial synthesis of recent scholarship and original insights into the origins of papermaking and its subsequent history in imperial China, including a wide range of archaeological evidence and literary sources. The volume introduces the materials and technologies of paper production and presents the cultural history of paper in traditional China. A comprehensive survey of literary sources on the production and use of paper is undertaken starting with the ongoing debate about the origin and genesis of paper, which was fuelled by recent archaeological discoveries of paper or proto-paper from the last two centuries BCE. In addition to its having become a popular writing material produced in many different qualities for both handwriting and printing, it also served as a material for wrapping or decorating, money and numerous uses in everyday life, such as umbrellas, windows, clothing, wallpapers, curtains and kites. Precious paper contributed to the aesthetics of calligraphy and painting, catering to the taste of the educated elite and artists.