Dorothy Ko, Professor of History at Barnard College and faculty member of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, recently discussed her new book The Social Life of Inkstones: Artisans and Scholars in Early Qing China with the New Books in East Asian Studies Podcast. Published by the University of Washington Press in 2017, The Social Life of Inkstones is in the Studies of the … [Read more...]
The Social Life of Inkstones: Artisans and Scholars in Early Qing China
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Dorothy Ko (University of Washington Press, 2017) For information from the publisher, please click here. 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 … [Read more...]
