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Src: The Asian Studies Monitor ISSN 1329-9778
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html
01 Mar 1999
The History of Chinese Bookbinding
International Dunhuang Project, British Library, UK
Self-description:
"The history of Chinese bookbinding has always suffered owing to a lack of material
evidence. [...] This site, by
combining textual descriptions with diagrams illustrating binding techniques and
photographs of the actual objects, aims to give a comprehensive introduction to the
different kinds of Chinese bookbinding contained in the Dunhuang collection of the
British Library."
Site contents:
Some characteristics of the Dunhuang booklets;
Butterfly binding (hudie zhuang);
Stitched binding (xian zhuang);
The Chinese pothi (fanjia zhuang);
Whirlwind binding (xuanfeng zhuang);
Concertina binding (jingzhe zhuang);
Wrapped-back binding (baobei zhuang);
Bibliography.
URL http://idp.bl.uk/IDP/bookbinding/chooser-frameset.html
Link suggested by: Janice M. Glowski (glowski.1@osu.edu)
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Study
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