class: middle # The Book in China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam
### Matthew J. Lavin ### Clinical Assistant Professor of English and Director of Digital Media Lab ### University of Pittsburgh ### September 2017 --- class: middle # China
- ### Script is 4,000 years old - ### Earliest book form is called
jiance
or
jiandu
- ### Bamboo or wooden strips - ### Heavy and awkward when assmebled as "a complete text" (99) - ### "Not conducive to wide circulation" (99) --- class: middle # China
### What does this look like to you?
--- class: middle # China
- ### Tang Dynasty (618-907) - #### Sutra-folded binding aka accordion binding - #### Xylography - ### Song Dynasty (960-1279) - #### Woodblock printing - #### First woodblock edition of Confucian classics - #### Bi Sheng invents movable type - ### Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368) - #### Wrapped back binding - #### Evidence of print found in private collections --- class: middle # Xylography
--- class: middle # China
- ### Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) - #### Thread binding and leightweight fascicles - #### What is a fascicle? - ### Qing period (1644-1911): - #### Imperial projects on "a grand scale" (103) - #### Four libraries collection - #### Growth of publishing leads to new genres (107) --- class: middle # Why Didn't China's Publishing Industry Develop along the Lines that Europe's Did?
--- class: middle # Japan
- ### Got script from China in the 6th century CE - ### Typography in the 16th century - ### Commerical press in the 17th century - ### Fiction, authorship profession, increased literacy in the 19th century --- class: middle # Japan today
- ### Globalization - ### Many translations of Western books - ###
Harry Potter
2.3 million copies - ### Most Japanese writing doesn't find its way into English --- class: middle # Korea
- ### Oldest known specimens of typography and print - ### Invasions from Japan made some materials scarce, which meant books were made from various materials - ### Western missionaries had a big influence - ### Basic Press Law (121) --- class: middle # Vietnam
- ### Print culture, Confucianism, and Buddhism come from China - ### Nom: Chinese plus local characters to express Vietnamese - ### What is quoc ngu? - #### Created by Portguese missionaries - #### Modified by Alexandre du Rhodes - #### Made compulsory in 1910 by the French colonial government - #### Crucial to the rise of newspapers and the spread of Marxism