Since at least the early sixth century C.E., ink rubbings of stone, metal, clay tiles, and wood inscriptions and pictorial images have been used in China to make precise copies of culturally valued material. These paper copies sometimes are all that remain of original works that have become illegible through erosion, or that have been destroyed by war or development, or have been rendered inaccessible through events such as flooding resulting from dam construction. Chinese rubbing techniques are used throughout East Asia to create copies that often also are prized in themselves as works of art. Despite the primary importance of this technology to history, art, archaeology, printing, and many other fields of knowledge, Black Tigers is the first comprehensive study of rubbings in a Western language, and as such will be welcomed by both scholars and collectors. In Black Tigers, Kenneth Starr recounts what he has seen and learned in fifty years of fascination with rubbings and travels to China in search of the early inscriptions from which they came. The book is a history of rubbings, a guide to connoisseurship, and a technical handbook on the materials and techniques used to make rubbings. Now readers of English, with the author as their affable guide, can gain rich insight into a rigorous discipline of classical scholarship, the way in which traditional scholars viewed their world, and some of the exquisite subtleties of Chinese high culture and connoisseurship. Black Tigers will be an essential resource for students of Chinese art, history, calligraphy, archaeology, and the history of printing.

Black Tigers: A Grammar of Chinese Rubbings

Arts & Photography

Starr, Kenneth

History & Criticism

University of Washington Press

Since at least the early sixth century C.E., ink rubbings of stone, metal, clay tiles, and wood inscriptions and pictorial images have been used in China to make precise copies of culturally valued material. These paper copies sometimes are all that remain of original works that have become illegible through erosion, or that have been destroyed by war or development, or have been rendered inaccessible through events such as flooding resulting from dam construction. Chinese rubbing techniques are used throughout East Asia to create copies that often also are prized in themselves as works of art. Despite the primary importance of this technology to history, art, archaeology, printing, and many other fields of knowledge, Black Tigers is the first comprehensive study of rubbings in a Western language, and as such will be welcomed by both scholars and collectors.In Black Tigers, Kenneth Starr recounts what he has seen and learned in fifty years of fascination with rubbings and travels to China in search of the early inscriptions from which they came. The book is a history of rubbings, a guide to connoisseurship, and a technical handbook on the materials and techniques used to make rubbings. Now readers of English, with the author as their affable guide, can gain rich insight into a rigorous discipline of classical scholarship, the way in which traditional scholars viewed their world, and some of the exquisite subtleties of Chinese high culture and connoisseurship.Black Tigers will be an essential resource for students of Chinese art, history, calligraphy, archaeology, and the history of printing.

Black Tigers: A Grammar of Chinese Rubbings (China Program Books)

The Starr Report: The Findings of Independent Counsel Kenneth W. Starr on President Clinton and the Lewinsky Affair With Annotations by the Washington Post

History

Americas

Replica Books

The Starr Report: Substantial and Credible Information

Politics & Social Sciences

United States Office of the Independent Counsel (1994- )

Social Sciences

Dove Entertainment Inc

Juries and justice (Gauer distinguished lecture in law and public policy)

Rules & Procedures

National Legal Center

There has never been a document like Independent Counsel Kenneth W. Starr's explosive report to Congress. Now, for the first time, here is the essential evidence behind Starr's report. Included is previously secret testimony by President Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, as well as supporting documents assembled by Starr to prove his case, with private e-mails, the FBI's test report on Lewinsky's dress, and a previously undisclosed Lewinsky diary. Also included is analysis and reporting by the Pulitzer Prize-winning staff of The Washington Post. The Starr Report was the Independent Counsel's attempt to explain what happened. Now the participants in the scandal finally tell their own story, in their own words.

The Starr Evidence: The Complete Text of the Grand Jury Testimony of President Clinton and Monica Lewinsky

WASHINGTON POST

Kenneth W. Starr

The Washington Post Staff

PublicAffairs

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