Table of Contents:
  • To count grains of sand on the ocean floor : changing perceptions of books and learning in the Song dynasty / Ronald Egan
  • Book collecting in Jiangxi during the Song dynasty / Joseph P. McDermott
  • Early printing in China viewed from the perspective of local gazetteers / Joseph Dennis
  • Early Buddhist illustrated prints in Hangzhou / Shih-shan Susan Huang
  • The uses of print in early Quanzhen Daoist texts / Lucille Chia
  • Governance through medical texts and the role of print / TJ Hinrichs
  • The cultural logics of map reading : text, time and space in printed maps of the Song empire / Hilde De Weerdt
  • Chen Jun's outline and details : printing and politics in thirteenth-century
  • Pedagogical histories / Charles Hartman
  • Challenging official history in the Song and Yuan dynasties : the record of the three kingdoms / Anne E. McLaren
  • Afterword : rethinking western printing with Chinese comparisons / Ann Blair.