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Research Brief: "Spreading Culture Throughout the Land" — Woodblock Publishing and Chinese Book Culture in the Early Modern Era
In 2021, Cynthia Brokaw delivered three talks as part of the Panizzi Lectures at the British Library in London, England. Her first talk titled, "Spreading Culture Throughout the Land: Woodblock Publishing and Chinese Book Culture in the Early Modern Era" explored why woodblock printing or xylography, remained, throughout China’s pre-modern history, the major print technology.
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