The inscription of things : writing and materiality in early modern China /

"The Matter of Inscription investigates how early modern writers scrutinized human attachments to the material world by engraving words onto things. "Inscription" (ming), a genre of Chinese literature linked to the sages of antiquity, typically took the form of a terse poem or epigram...

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Main Author:	Kelly, Thomas (Thomas Patrick) (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English Chinese
Language Notes:	Text in English, with excerpts in Chinese.
Published:	New York : Columbia University Press, [2023]
Subjects:	Inscriptions > China. Inscriptions, Chinese > Ming-Qing dynasties, 1368-1912. Inscriptions China