The Paper Trail: An Unexpected History of a Revolutionary Invention - Couverture souple

Monro, Alexander

 
9780141039428: The Paper Trail: An Unexpected History of a Revolutionary Invention
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0141039426 ISBN 13 : 9780141039428
Editeur : Penguin, 2015

Synopsis

The Paper Trail tells the story of how a simple Chinese product has for two millennia allowed knowledge, ideas and religions to spread at an unprecedented rate around the world. Alexander Monro traces this groundbreaking invention's voyage, beginning with the Buddhist translators responsible for its spread across China and Japan, and follows it westward along the Silk Road, where it eventually became the surface of the Quran. Once paper reached Europe, it became indispensable to the scholars who manufactured the Renaissance and Reformation from their desks. As Monro uncovers, paper created a world in which free thinking could flourish, and brought disciplines from science to music into a new age.

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À propos de l?auteur

Alexander Monro studied Chinese at the University of Cambridge and in Beijing before working for The Times in London and for Reuters in Shanghai. He has contributed chapters to The Dragon Throne (a history of China's dynasties) and The Seventy Great Journeys in History, and edited two travel poetry anthologies, including China: City and Exile. In 2011, he won the Royal Society of Literature's Jerwood Award for Non-Fiction for The Paper Trail, his first book. He lives with his wife in the Cotswolds, and writes on contemporary China.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

The Paper Trail tells the story of how a simple Chinese product has for two millennia allowed knowledge, ideas and religions to spread at an unprecedented rate around the world. Alexander Monro traces this groundbreaking invention's voyage, beginning with the Buddhist translators responsible for its spread across China and Japan, and follows it westward along the Silk Road, where it eventually became the surface of the Quran. Once paper reached Europe, it became indispensable to the scholars who manufactured the Renaissance and Reformation from their desks. As Monro uncovers, paper created a world in which free thinking could flourish, and brought disciplines from science to music into a new age.

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Éditeur
Penguin
Date d'édition
2015
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0141039426
ISBN 13 
9780141039428
Reliure
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Nombre de pages
384
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ISBN 10 :  0307271668 ISBN 13 :  9780307271662
Editeur : Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2016
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