Gutenberg and the Koreans
   
     

Did East Asian Printing Traditions Influence the European Renaissance?

Thomas Christensen

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Selected Readings

Berger, Patricia, and Terese Tse Bartholomew. Mongolia: The Legacy of Chinggis Khan. San Francisco: Asian Art Museum, 1995.

Cheongju Early Printing Museum. Printing and Publishing Culture: Proceedings of the Third International Symposium. Cheongju: Cheongju Early Printing Museum, 2000.

Ch’on Hye-bong. “Pulcho chikchi simch’e yojol.” Korea Journal 3:7 (July 1963): 20–21.

Ch’on Hye-bong. “Typography in Korea: Birthplace of Moveable Metal Type.” Korea Journal 3:7 (July 1963): 10–19.

Gernet, Jacques. A History of Chinese Civilization. Trans. J.R. Foster and Charles Hartman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982, 1996 (2nd ed.).

Hanbutt-Benz, Eva-Maria, “Gutenberg’s Metal Type,” in Printing and Publishing Culture: Proceedings of the Third International Symposium. Chungbuk-do, Korea: Cheongju Early Printing Museum, 2000.

Kahn, Paul. The Secret History of the Mongols: The Origin of Chingis Khan. “Based on the English translation of F.W. Cleaves.” Berkeley: North Point Press, 1984.

Kim, Doo-jong. “History of Korean Printing.” Korea Journal 3:7 (July 1963): 22–26.

Kim, Joo-young. “The Tripitika Koreana and Changgyonggak at Haein-sa Temple.” Koreana 7, no. 2 (Summer 1993), 32–37.

Kim, Kumja Paik, The Art of Korea: Highlights from the Collection of San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum. San Francisco: Asian Art Museum, 2006.

Kim, Kumja Paik, Goryeo Dynasty: Korea’s Age of Enlightenment, 918–1392. San Francisco: Asian Art Museum, 2003.

Langois, John D., Jr. China under Mongol Rule. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981.

Lee, Jae-jun. “Hungdok-sa Temple Site in Ch’ongju.” Koreana 7, no. 2 (Summer 1993), 22–27.

Lehmann-Haupt, Hellmut. Gutenberg and the Master of the Playing Cards. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1966.

Marcou, David J. “Korea: The Cradle of Movable Metal type.” Korean Culture 13:1 (Spring 1992): 4–7.

McLuhan, Marshall. The Gutenberg Galaxy. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1962.

Morgan, David. The Mongols. New York: Basil Blackwell, 1986.

Sohn, Pow-Key. “Early Korean Printing.” Journal of the American Oriental Society 79, 2 ( Apr.–Jun., 1959 ), 96–103.

Sohn, Pow-Key. “Printing Since the 8th Century in Korea.” Koreana 7, no. 2 (Summer 1993), 4–9.

Tsuen-Hsuin, Tsien. “Paper and Printing,” part one of vol. 5 in Joseph Needham, Science and Civilisation in China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

Twichett, Denis. Printing and Publishing in Medieval China. New York: Frederic C. Beil, 1983.

Young, Myung-chui, “Korea’s Sphere of Maritime Influence,” Koreana 20, no. 2 (Summer 2006).

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Introduction

Print Technology and Society

The Development of Printing in China and Its Transmission to the West

Cross-Cultural Currents under the Mongol Empire

Cast-Type Printing in Korea's Goryeo Dynasty

>>Selected Reading<<

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