Workshop on Print in a Global Context: Japan and the World

Mellon Foundation, USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute, USC East Asian Studies Center, Huntington Library

Friday, October 24, 2008 : 9:00am to 4:30pm

University Park Campus
Social Sciences Building
250

Free


The USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute hosts an international seminar examining the global rise of print.

During the 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 academic years, the institute will hold several events on this subject.

Suggested reading for the first workshop:

  • Mary Elizabeth Berry, Japan in Print: Information and Nation in the Early Modern Period (University of California Press, 2007)
  • Cynthia Brokaw, “Book History in Premodern China: The State of the Discipline I,” Book History, 10 (2007), 253-290

http://college.usc.edu/emsi/conferences/index.html