• Zhu Xi bangshu qianziwen (The thousand characters classic written by Zhu Xi in large characters)
    朱熹榜書千字文

Author:
  • Zhu, Xi, 1130-1200
Contributor:
  • Lin, Guantian
  • 林冠天
  • Deng, Zhonghe, 1946-
  • 邓中和, 1946-
Publisher:
  • Bei jing : Zhong guo qing nian chu ban she, 1999.
  • 北京 : 中国青年出版社, 1999.
Edition:
  • Di 1 ban, zhen cang ban.
  • 第1版, 珍藏版.
Extent:
  • 3 volumes (506 pages) ; 35 x 53 cm
Format:
Book designer:
  • Lü, Jingren, 1947-
  • 呂敬人, 1947-
Description:
  • In case.
  • 封函將千字文反雕在桐木板上,仿宋代印刷的木雕版.在上下封函的中間,分別題署本書的題名"朱熹榜書千字文",全函以皮帶串連,如意木扣合.書中收入朱熹所書千字文（存973字）,每頁2字.
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Edm rights:
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
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Curator's notes:

  • Zhou Xingsi 周興嗣 (470–521)?, Zhu Xi 朱熹 (1130–1200). Lü Jingren 吕敬人 (1947–), designer

    Classical Chinese
    Beijing, 1999, paper between wooden covers

    Lü Jingren has been the most influential Chinese book designer since book publishing restarted after the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976). The book shown here is often regarded as the very start of that renewal of artistic book making. Inside are volumes of the Thousand Character Classic, traditionally bound, but it is the use of (seemingly) Chinese printing woodblocks (with characters partly mirrored, partly straight) as a cover board which creates something totally new.

    East Asian Library Special Collections, NK3634.C465 Z48 1999e

    For further reading

    Lü Jingren 吕敬人. Jingren shuji sheji 敬人书籍设计. Changchun: Jilin Meishu Chubanshe, 2000.

    Sugiura Kōhei. Books, letterforms and design in Asia: Sugiura Kohei in conversation with Asian designers. Mumbai: ADARG and Marg Foundation, 2014.

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