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Written on bamboo and silk : the beginnings of Chinese books and inscriptions
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Written on bamboo and silk : the beginnings of Chinese books and inscriptions

by Tsuen-hsuin Tsien

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Accession 32192 ISBN — Publisher University of Chicago Press
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