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The Social Life of Inkstones: Artisans and Scholars in Early Qing China (A Study of the Weatherhead Easet Asian Institute of Columbia University)
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| #415612 in Books | 2017-02-07 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 10.00 x7.00 x1.00l,.0 | File type: PDF | 330 pages||1 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| A must buy!|By Wei Kang Tchou|As collector of inkstones from a family of collectors of inkstones this book is a joy to read and behold. Only improvement might be if the book was formed and shaped like an ink stone so that it looks like a real ink stone but upon opening one realize its a book about the object. The costs of such bespoke printing would of course only be affordable||"A magical text. I have little doubt that The Social Life of Inkstones will become not only a point of reference, but also a book that readers simply love."―Jonathan Hay, author of Sensuous Surfaces: The Decorative Object in Early Modern China|
An inkstone, a piece of polished stone no bigger than an outstretched hand, is an instrument for grinding ink, an object of art, a token of exchange between friends or sovereign states, and a surface on which texts and images are carved. As such, the inkstone has been entangled with elite masculinity and the values of wen (culture, literature, civility) in China, Korea, and Japan for more than a millennium. However, for such a ubiquitous object in East Asia, it is...
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