From Oracle Bones to Computers: The Emergence of Writing Technologies in China

Baotong Gu Information and Pricing978-1-60235-100-4 (paperback, $30.00); 978-1-60235-101-1 (hardcover, $60.00); 978-1-60235-102-8 (PDF, $19.99) © 2009 by Parlor Press. 280 pages, with illustrations, notes, and bibliography. Bookstores: Order by fax, mail, or phone. See our "Sales and Ordering Page" for details. About This Book From Oracle Bones to Computers: The Emergence of Writing Technologies in China is the first book to provide a systematic historical, rhetorical, as well as critical account of the development of major writing technologies in China, spanning a history of over five thousand years. Baotong Gu covers the development of a wide array of major writing technologies, most of which were native Chinese inventions, including oracle inscriptions, bronze inscriptions, brush pens, ink, early forms of paper, the modern form of paper, block printing, movable type, the Chinese typewriter, the computer, and the Internet. From Oracle Bones to Computers distinguishes itself from o