Exhibition Overview & Objectives

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The online exhibition Bound by Tradition: Physical Bibliography of East Asian bookbinding explores the physical bibliography of traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean stab-binding books, highlighting paper production and book binding structure. 

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Bound by Tradition focuses primarily on books with stab-bindings, also referred to as side-stitched, thread-binding, or pouch-binding. The stab-binding represents the last stage in the history of traditional East Asian bookbinding, which was predominant in the 14th to 17th centuries.

​This exhibit includes 14 items held in Asia collections, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. 

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