Paper, Inventions and the Development of East Asia

How did paper travel from a Han dynasty workshop to Baghdad and Europe? Why did the cultural heart of China move south? How did Japan come to be known to the Arabs, to Marco Polo and to Columbus?

Kuwabara Jitsuzō (1871-1931), a founder of Oriental history in Japan, answered these questions in six essays and lectures first published between 1911 and 1929. Translated complete from the Japanese, with a translator's note and endnotes.