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Mark Kurlansky · 初版 2016 年
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纸是人类最简单也是最不可或缺的技术之一。在过去的数千年里，以日益高效的方式生产纸张的能力支撑了识字率、媒体、宗教、教育、商业和艺术的传播普及。它创造了文明，助长了革命的酝酿并稳固了政权。试看历史上最庞大的印刷发行：印制了65亿册《Mao zhu xi yu lu》（Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (Zedong)），或者 Leonardo da Vinci 仅留下了15幅画作，却留下了4000幅纸上作品这一事实。如今，在这转折的
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我这几年读过的一本书是 Mark Kurlansky 的《Paper》。光是故事中那小小的一角，就是一段极其厚重的历史。https://www.dahosek.com/dewey-decimal-project-676-09-kur-pap...
One book I've read in the last few years was Mark Kurlansky's Paper. Just that tiny corner of the story is a remarkably rich bit of history. https://www.dahosek.com/dewey-decimal-project-676-09-kur-pap...
一些推荐：Mark Kurlansky 的书《Paper》、Marshall McLuhan、BBC 完整纪录片《The Secret History of Writing》https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96fuXitEwhk
Some recommendations: Mark Kurlansky's book 'Paper' Marshall McLuhan The Secret History of Writing - BBC Full Documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96fuXitEwhk
Mark Kurlansky 在这种“某物的传记”类型上生意兴隆，《Salt》和《Cod》是我读到你的帖子时最先想到的两本书，但他还有我没读过的《Salmon》和《Paper》。我觉得我会把这些书归入社会史这个宽泛的类别，那是一个类型。你也可以找找“微观史”，这里有一个列表：https://www.librarything.com/tag/microhistory
Mark Kurlansky has done a brisk business in this kind of biography-of-a-thing, Salt, and Cod were the first two books I thought of when I read your post, but he's also got books called Salmon and Paper that I haven't read. I think that I would put those books under the broad heading of social histories, which is a genre. You may also look for "microhistories", and here's a list of them: https://www.librarything.com/tag/microhistory