Description: Since at least the seventh century C.E., Chinese ink rubbings of stone, metal, and wood inscriptions and pictorial images have been created to serve as precise copies of valuable material. These paper copies sometimes are all that remain of the original works. Despite the primary importance of this technology to history, art, archaeology, and many other fields, this is the first comprehensive study of rubbings in a Western language. Kenneth Starr is the former director of the Milwaukee Public Museum and former curator of Asiatic Archaeology at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago.
Review Quotes:
"A lively and enjoyable look into a world mastered by few. . . . [Starr] has gathered a half-century of personal experience and study of ink rubbings, in China, Taiwan, Japan and the US, into this unique volume."
-- "T'oung Pao"