Reinventing gutenberg: Woodblock and movable-type printing in Europe and China

Agent of Change: Print Culture Studies after Elizabeth L. Eisenstein

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 169-192

  Chow, Kai Wing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

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