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David Barker. Traditional Techniques in Contemporary Chinese Printmaking. Printmaking Handbook. Honolulu: University of Hawai`i Press, 2005. 28 pp. Paperback 20.00, isbn 0824829923. Scholars of Chinese woodblock printing technology, art history, and the history of the book will be grateful to David Barker for the precise and expert descriptions of Chinese printmaking techniques he provides in Traditional Techniques in Contemporary Chinese Printmaking. Despite the long history of woodblock printing in China--the origins of printing are now dated to the eighth century at the latest--and the importance of woodblock printing or xylography in the history of Chinese publishing, no detailed technical descriptions in Chinese of the process of block cutting and printing have survived from before the twentieth century. Tsien Tsuen-hsuin, in his overview of woodblock printing in the Science and Civilisation in China series, notes that "the technical procedures of printing have scarcely been documented in Chinese literature" and relies for his description of the technology on interviews conducted in 979 with craftsmen who were still producing woodblock texts.¹ Western observers in nineteenth-century China occasionally supplied illuminating descriptions of the cutting and printing processes,² and certain Western missionaries, such as William Milne, eager to produce Bibles and religious tracts,
China Review International – University of Hawai'I Press
Published: Jan 24, 2007
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