Two truisms: One, we encounter multiple platforms in our digital lives; in fact, both platform development and figuring out how to use a new platform can be exciting, creative activity. Two, many of the ways in which woodblock printing was used in early modern China do not translate easily into standard print media. I am interested in considering early-modern print media from the perspective of both these truisms, specifically turning my attention to a text that has traditionally been considered the purview of intellectual history, Chuanxi lu (usually translated as Record for Practice).

About the speaker:

Tina Lu received an AB and PhD from Harvard. She taught at Penn from 1998 to 2008 and has been at Yale since then. She currently serves as the department chair and also inaugural head of Yale’s newest residential college. She is the author of several books. Current special interests include the digital humanities and cognitive approaches to literature.

*Photocredit: Wang Wencheng gong quanshu (1572)