Ancient Chinese bookbinding

Author: Yang Yongde
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Publish Date: 2006-04-01
Features: The Chinese Ancient Bookbinding narrates the art of ancient Chinese bookbinding from the perspective of traditional Chinese culture. It provides a comprehensive and systematic introduction to its origins, development, cultural connotations, the carriers of text, as well as related tools such as brushes, ink, paper, printing, and related inventions. From ancient knot records to the thread-bound books of the Qing Dynasty, the author strives to organize the materials collected over the years, analyzing and researching traditional Chinese culture from the perspectives of dialectical materialism and historical materialism in philosophy and aesthetics. This results in a unique and systematic monograph on ancient Chinese bookbinding that spans thousands of years of Chinese cultural history. It is a labor of love with high academic value, filling the void left by the lack of theoretical monographs on ancient Chinese bookbinding.