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Cathleen Paethe

Subject Librarian for Chinese Studies
CPAETHE@MPIWG-BERLIN.MPG.DE T +49 30 22667 134
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Cathleen Paethe is the Subject Librarian for Sinology at the Institute. Cathleen's research interests include the history of traditional Chinese libraries and book collections, printing history, and book culture.

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Monumentalized or Marginalized, Writings about Technology in Chinese History: A Database

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The Bibliophile Qi Chenghan: Book Consumption and Commercialization in Late Ming China

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Selected Publications

Paethe, Cathleen and Dagmar Schäfer (2016). “Books for sustenance and life : bibliophile practices and skills in the late Ming and Qi Chenghan’s Library Dansheng tang.” In Transforming book culture in China, 1600 - 2016, ed. D. Berg and G. Strafella, 19–48. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

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Analysis of Pre-Modern Maps of East Asia: Methods and Approaches

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