The Dynamic Spread of Buddhist Print Culture (Vol.1): Mapping Buddhist Book Roads in China and Its Neighbors - Paperback

by Shih-Shan Susan Huang (Author)

Now in paperback!
Part 1 of 2. This book examines a vast selection of Buddhist printed images and texts, not merely as static cultural relics, but holistically within multicultural contexts, and as objects on the move, transmitted across a sprawling web of transnational networks, "Buddhist Book Roads".

Author Biography

Shih-shan Susan Huang, Ph.D. (2002), Yale University, is T.T. and W.F. Chao Professor of Transnational Asian Studies at Rice University. She has published on Buddhist and Daoist art, including Picturing the True Form: Daoist Visual Culture in Traditional China (Harvard Asia Center, 2012).