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A dramatic, comprehensively researched, vividly written story populated by holy men and scholars, warriors and poets, rulers and ordinary men and women - here is not only the story of paper, but of human society.

The Paper Trail explores how a paper was used in the imperial court of Han China to solidify social and political systems that have influenced the country even in our own time. Here we see how paper made possible the spread of Buddhism and Manichaeism into Japan, Korea, and Vietnam; how it enabled theologians, scientists, and artists to build the vast empire of the Abbasid Caliphate and embed the Koran in popular culture; how it was carried along the Silk Road by merchants and missionaries, finally reaching Europe in the late thirteenth century; and how, once established in Europe, along with the printing press, paper played an essential role in the three great foundations of Western modernity: the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Scientific Revolution.

A richly detailed history of how paper - a Chinese invention two thousand years old - has carried humankind’s most momentous ideas around the world. The first writing surface sufficiently cheap, portable, and printable for books, pamphlets, and journals to be mass-produced and widely distributed, the invention and acceptance of paper opened the way for an unprecedented, ongoing dialogue between individuals and between communities across continents, oceans, and time.

The Paper Trail: An Unexpected History Of A Revolutionary Invention