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Welcome to the second 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: Chapter 1. The Palace Workshops: The Emperor and His Servants.

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In this chapter we looked at the Qing court and the inkstone makers there. Here are some optional discussion questions:

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

Did any historical figures introduced in the chapter stand out to you? In what way?

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

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

Date: 2022-03-07 02:48 am (UTC)
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I think I was primed to make that European connection because I previously went down a research spiral on the influence of Dutch traders on medical research and mapmaking in Japan: Frog in the Well: Portraits of Japan by Watanabe Kazan, 1793–1841 (amongst other books and articles).

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