Mingben (Illustrated Treasure Edition)

Author: Zhao Qian
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Publish Date: 2003-08-01
Features: This series of books is written in various specialized volumes, including Song edition, Yuan edition, Ming edition, Qing engraved edition, ethnic minority ancient books, shop-engraved edition, family-engraved edition, movable-type edition, illustrated edition, and new literature edition, etc., striving to reflect the new style and level of our country's edition research. Of course, some people are afraid that this format might lack uniformity and may result in repetition. The editors believe there is no need to worry about this. The format is generally unified, but it is neither possible nor necessary to be as neatly organized as a textbook. The editors recall that when they first entered the field of ancient books edition, they read various books such as Zhang Zhidong's Catalogue of Books Answered, Ye Dehui's Chu Lin Qinghua, Sun Yuxiu's A Study of the Origin of Chinese Woodblock Printing, Ye Changchi's Poems on Book Collecting, as well as bibliographies and prefaces from various authors. It was truly a wide variety of books, and there was no need to adhere to a single format or box. But in the end, they managed to master the art of edition studies. With ten or so volumes in this series, some repetition in the content is not a big deal. For example, some say that Mao Jin's Jigu Ge should be classified as a family-engraved edition, while others argue it should be categorized as a shop-engraved edition. Each author writes from their own perspective, with different insights. A bit of diversity—like a hundred flowers blooming—wouldn't it be more interesting than a single flower?