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The Han Empire's Wooden Slips: Paper Before Paper

The Han Empire's Wooden Slips: Paper Before Paper

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Before paper transformed the world, the Han Empire administered its vast territories through millions of inscribed wooden slips — jiandu. This episode explores how Han bureaucrats wrote, transported, and stored these slips, from the imperial archives in Chang'an to the frontier watchtowers of the Hexi Corridor. Discover the 2012 excavation of the Songbai Han tomb in Hubei, which yielded over 3,000 slips, and the 1970s finds at Juyan and Dunhuang that revealed military reports, personal letters, and even a doctor's prescription. We'll discuss how the wood was sourced — poplar, willow, pine — and how the slips were bound with hemp strings into volumes called ce. We'll also look at the transition to silk and eventually paper, culminating in Cai Lun's innovations around 105 CE. Along the way, we'll meet the ling shi (clerks) who managed the system and trace how the Qin and Han obsession with record-keeping laid the groundwork for China's later examination system and bureaucratic state. #HanDynasty #Jiandu #WoodenSlips #SongbaiTomb #Juyan #Dunhuang #ChangAn #HexiCorridor #CaiLun #PaperInvention #AncientBureaucracy #ChineseHistory #SilkRoad #Archaeology #FexingoHistory #AncientWriting #Epigraphy #History Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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