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List of illustrations

  • Pilgrim's Progress in Romanized Hokkien
  • Woodblock
  • Phaistos disc
  • One of the “One Million Pagodas” (Hyakumanto)
  • Buddhist sutras on stone steles in Yunju Temple
  • Portrait of Wu Zetian, detail
  • Dharani pillar from Biyun Temple
  • Map of Songshan
  • Golden Tablet
  • Great Spell as listed in a bibliography of the Buddhist Canon
  • Tombstone, verso
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~For Chinese this book uses the pinyin transcription, even though this results in some unfamiliar forms, such as ‘Tang for’T’ang’ as the name of the dynasty ruled over by the Li family, and ‘Yangzi’ for ‘Yangtze’ as the name of the river. The ancient sage Laozi, reputed author of the Daode jing,...
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~This book argues that more than thirteen hundred years ago — over twice as long ago as the time of Johannes Gutenberg in Europe -China had already developed an ability to print on a massive scale. But because the most prominent supporter of this development was a woman, after her death those in authority...
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~People today are losing touch with the technologies that first made the world they still inhabit. The experience of reading a book, as you are doing right now, is still much the same for you as it was when reading first became an activity in which large numbers of people were able to participate over half a millennium ago. It is the technology that has made the...
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~To see the oldest printed document in the world, it is necessary to travel to a museum in Europe, but not one of the better-known ones. The museum of Iraklion, on the Greek island of Crete, houses a clay disc, recovered in 1908 from the ancient site of the city of Phaistos, on which forty-five...
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~Mankind today can look back on the Buddha, the ‘Enlightened One’, as one of the most successful religious teachers in history, a man whose ideas still influence millions in every part of the world. However to grasp his importance not to religion but to information technology we need to understand not the whole of his...
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~If anyone remembers the verbose and dyspeptic writings of Gildas today, it is not for their literary merit, nor yet for his rather limited value as a narrative historian, but because of his apparent indirect testimony to the existence of someone infinitely more famous, the heroic King...
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~As the middle of the seventh century approached, the old emperor was tired and anxious, not least about the matter of succession. No dynasty within living memory had survived longer than its fourth decade, which the Tang dynasty founded by the Li...
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~Before any discussion of the part that her religious ideology may have played in promoting the development of printing, it is worth noting that the woman whose career...
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~If Bede had really seen the man in front of the great female monarch in faraway China, his shaven head would probably have suggested his religious status to his English contemporary. But Bede would no doubt have noticed too that his face suggested a rather different ethnic background...
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~In Europe the block printing of patterns and images on textiles forms an important part of the prehistory of printing,...
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~Although the preceding chapters have added a number of new sources to the...
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