Impressions of the East : treasures from the C.V. Starr East Asian Library, University of California, Berkeley / Deborah Rudolph ; foreword by Peter Zhou.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-177).

Part I. Technical impressions. Before the block-printed book: Shell and bone script -- Seals -- Stone inscriptions -- A million printed charms -- Woodblock imprints: The block-printed leaf -- Dating engraving and dating printing -- Temple printing -- Government printing -- Printing and diplomacy -- Woodblock illustration -- Variations in print: Metal movable-type printing -- Wooden movable-type printing -- Ligatured movable type -- Hand-colored woodblock illustration -- Color woodblock illustration -- Embellishments -- Printing for a popular audience: Jianyang Publishing -- Illustrated popular fiction -- Samurai authors -- Pulp fiction -- Kuchi-e -- Transmission of texts: Banned books -- Unpublishable material -- Manuscripts -- Personal copies -- Error in transmission -- Part II. Cultural impressions. The three teachings: Confucian morality -- Korean Confucianism -- Religious Daoism -- Acts of devotion -- Religion of images -- Court, town, and country: The Heian court -- Choson Seoul -- Celebrated places -- Whales and whaling -- Tilling and weaving -- The pursuit of pleasure: Ehon -- Closet drama -- Ink cakes -- The Tokaido -- Wordplay -- Graffiti -- Foreign exchange: Dutch learning -- Sakhalin ethnography -- Engineering in translation -- Missionary of science -- Mapping land and sea: Coastal defense -- Invasion -- Commercial map making -- World views.