A quick syllabus with my blogs

Do you want to do an East Asia in print day? Well, I think you can do it with my blog and a few other digital resources:

Here’s how I would begin:

First, read a little bit about paper – this will let you get talking about comparative materiality early on

Chinese Paper Stamps

Then, pop over to this page for an introduction to the earliest printed book

http://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=207

Read about early bindings:

http://idp.bl.uk/education/bookbinding/bookbinding.a4d

Now read about woodblocks after seeing someone in Chengdu printing with one:

Things You Can Do with Woodblocks (2)

Things you can do with Woodblocks (1)

If you want to see a 3D scan of a woodblock!

https://www.3dhotbed.info/toolkit

End with enclosures:

Book boxes

Then, zoom over to the WDL timeline

https://www.wdl.org/en/sets/chinese-literature/timeline/