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forestofgloryWelcome to the first post of our read a long of The Social Life of Inkstones: Artisans and Scholars in Early Qing China by Dorothy Ko! For this post we are reading the introduction.
Since this the introduction to the book, I thought it might be nice for us to introduce ourselves, so here are some optional discussion questions:
1. What do you hope to get out of reading this book? What do you hope to get out of the read a long format?
2. What is your experience reading academic history books? (No experience necessary of course, but it's helpful for me to know for planning purposes)
3. What is your experience using an inkstone or writing languages that historically where written with inkstones?
4. In the introduction what did you find interesting and/or exciting?
Since this the introduction to the book, I thought it might be nice for us to introduce ourselves, so here are some optional discussion questions:
1. What do you hope to get out of reading this book? What do you hope to get out of the read a long format?
2. What is your experience reading academic history books? (No experience necessary of course, but it's helpful for me to know for planning purposes)
3. What is your experience using an inkstone or writing languages that historically where written with inkstones?
4. In the introduction what did you find interesting and/or exciting?
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Date: 2022-02-21 12:25 am (UTC)Writting implements are indeed cool.
I know the author has written other books that are more focused on gender so I'm expecting her to be aware of those kinds of issues
I've been thinking about historians identifying with scholars and if that's what I've seen in other things I've read. In some cases it is! But also right now I'm reading a book about women's lives that very much does not do that.
I love the pictures, they where one of the 1st things I noticed when my copy of this book arrived.