The Rigvedic Equivalent for Hell
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3959757 |
|---|---|
| Authors | W Norman Brown (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1941 |
| Volume | 61 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 76 |
| Publication date | 1941-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the American Oriental Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0279 • E-ISSN: 2169-2289 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/594250 |
| OpenAlex | W2314810651 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
handicap tabs were often placed at the fore-edge, precisely as in some Western books, or as in a cardindex. There are examples of binding in the Library of Congress, and a particularly fine specimen is preserved in the National Library of Peiping, giving the name of the binder and the day and year he completed his work, namely December 4, 1260. This type of binding remained in vogue until about the 14th century, probably because it allowed for a map or a drawing to be spread over the two halves of an opened volume instead of one half only. However, such a book could not be rebound without injury to the text, and for this and other reasons it gradually went out of use. We come finally to the stitched book which we now see on the shelves of Chinese libraries. This is still a book with folded leaves, printed on one side of the paper only, but the folds all come to the fore-edge nearest the reader. What we have now is a reversal of the butterfly binding, the free ends of the sheet being turned back toward the spine and bound there by the over-lap or whipstitch process. Such a book has no blank pages, and allows for successive rebinding without injury to the text; and since no paste 23 is used, it is not easily subject to destruction by insects or worms. As in ancient times, five or ten such volumes are enclosed in a cloth or brocade portfolio called han M or tao 2. This portfolio, except for being rectangular, is clearly a survival of the ancient wrapper, chih, which also held five or ten scrolls in the manner already described. This is the story, briefly told, of the transformation of the Chinese book as it developed, step by step, from the wooden or bamboo slip to the silk or paper scroll, from the scroll to the folded album, and from the album to the paged book of modern times. These are, in general, the materials and the forms on which the Chinese have recorded their observations, their hopes and fears and desires, over a period of at least three thousand years
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,05 |
| Citation span | 1982 - 2011 (30) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |