---------------------------------------------------- Internet Guide for China Studies Newsletter http://sun.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/ignew.htm ---------------------------------------------------- 02. Mar. 1999 New in IGCS - Culture and Art: The History of Chinese Bookbinding Ed./Corp.: International Dunhuang Project, British Library, UK URL: http://idp.bl.uk/IDP/bookbinding/chooser-frameset.html Language: English. Self description: "The history of Chinese bookbinding has always suffered owing to a lack of material evidence. [...] This site, by combining textual descriptions with diagrams illustrating binding techniques and photographs of the actual objects, aims to give a comprehensive introduction to the different kinds of Chinese bookbinding contained in the Dunhuang collection of the British Library." Site contents: Some characteristics of the Dunhuang booklets; Butterfly binding (hudie zhuang); Stitched binding (xian zhuang); The Chinese pothi (fanjia zhuang); Whirlwind binding (xuanfeng zhuang); Concertina binding (jingzhe zhuang); Wrapped-back binding (baobei zhuang); Bibliography. Note: Frames capable browser needed! Non-frames browsers please enter via http://idp.bl.uk/IDP/bookbinding/CHOOSER-MAIN.html! Resource suggested by Janice M. Glowski ([log in to unmask]) (via the Asian Studies WWW Monitor, Mar. 1999). _______________________________________________________ With kind regards, Hanno Lecher ([log in to unmask]) INTERNET GUIDE FOR CHINA STUDIES -- editor http://sun.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/ _______________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to: [log in to unmask] containing the following message: SIGNOFF IGCS-L