May. 11th, 2022

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Welcome to our read a long of The Social Life of Inkstones: Artisans and Scholars in Early Qing China by Dorothy Ko! This is the final post and we are going to talk about the Epilogue and the book over all!

Previous posts:
Introduction
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5

You are welcome to join in at any time!

This chapter warped up the book, so lets talk about it all.

Optional discussion questions

What where the main arguments in the book? Did you find them convincing?

Did any historical figures introduced in the chapter/book stood out to you? In what way?

Did any of the inkstones or other objects in the chapter stand out to you? In what way?

What did this chapter/book make you want to learn more about?

Additionally what about this read along format worked well? And what didn't work? Would you be interested in another read along?

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