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ChINESE books: Bookbinding TEchniques and materials

dOCUMENTARY/vIDEO

Chinese stab-binding tutorial, Parts 1 and 2

Books

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Martinique, E. (1983). Chinese traditional bookbinding : a study of its evolution and techniques . San Francisco: Chinese Materials Center.

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Edgren, S., & Gest Oriental Library and East Asian Collections. (1995). The Traditional Chinese book: Form & function ; April 18 - June 4, 1995. Princeton: Gest Library.

aRTICLES/bOOK cHAPTERS

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Bussotti, M., & Qi, H. (2014). Typography for a Modern World?: The Ways of Chinese Movable Types. East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine, (40), 9-44. Retrieved April 8, 2020, from www.jstor.org/stable/eastasiascietech.40.9

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LIN, H., & 林航. (2013). Intersecting boundaries: Manuscript, printing, and book culture in late Ming China. Oriens Extremus, 52, 263-304. Retrieved from www.jstor.org/stable/26372418

 

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Lixin Yang, John Richard Stepp, Selena Ahmed, Shengji Pei, & Dayuan Xue. (2011). The Role of Montane Forests for Indigenous Dongba Papermaking in the Naxi Highlands of Northwest Yunnan, China. Mountain Research and Development, 31(4), 334-342. Retrieved  from www.jstor.org/stable/mounresedeve.31.4.334

 

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Martinique, E. (1973). The Binding and Preservation of Chinese Double-Leaved Books. The Library Quarterly: Information, Community, Policy, 43(3), 227-236. Retrieved  from www.jstor.org/stable/4306286

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Reed, C. (2007). Gutenberg and Modern Chinese Print Culture: The State of the Discipline II. Book History, 10, 291-315. Retrieved  from www.jstor.org/stable/30227407

 

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Tsien, T. (1973). Raw Materials for Old Papermaking in China. Journal of the American Oriental Society, 93(4), 510-519. doi:10.2307/600169

 

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TSIEN, T. (2011). TECHNIQUES OF WOODBLOCK PRINTING. In Collected Writings on Chinese Culture (pp. 129-144). Hong Kong: Chinese University Press. Retrieved from www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1pb61wm.14

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