TypographyforaModernWorld.PDF

EASTM 40 (2014): 9-44 Typography for a Modern World? The Ways of Chinese Movable Types Michela Bussotti and Han Qi [Michela BUSSOTTI holds an MA in Oriental Languages and Literatures from the University of Venice and a Doctorate from the École Pratique des Hautes Études of Paris. In 2001 she joined EFEO (Ecole Française d’Extrême-Orient) as a researcher and in 2004 she became Maître de Conferences; from 2001 to 2006, she was appointed to the EFEO center in Beijing. In 2011, she received the French HDR degree (authorization to supervise students in their doctoral researches) and in 2013 she joined the research team CECMC (Center of Studies on Modern and Contemporary China) of CNRS-EHESS. Since the time of her doctoral research she has focused on the history of printing and books, illustra tions, and other printed materials and has published extensively, paying special attention to book publish- ing activities in central China and illustrated books of the late imperial period. Her book Gravures de Hui, EFEO, 2001 [2002] received the “Stanisla s Julien” prize awarded by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. Her present researches concern: edition and publication of Chinese genealogies; production of multi- languages dictionaries in modern times; movable Chinese type in China and Europe. Email: michela.bussotti@.] [HAN Qi 韓琦received a Ph.D. degree from the Institute for the History of Natu- ral Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1991. Since 2000, he has served as a professor at the same institute, and in 2015 he became the vice -director. His main research field is East-West cultural exchanges from the seventeenth to twentieth century, especially the transmission of Western science in China during the Kang- xi and Qianlong reigns. He has a