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Ten Thousand Volumes Illuminate the Pass and River 万卷照关河
In the fifth year of Xining in the Northern Song, a mysterious remnant gazetteer from Longyou is publicly burned in Bianjing’s old book market. Ash drifts west against the wind, and only Yu Zhiwei, a “book doctor” at the Secret Pavilion, can see the words in the flames escaping stroke by stroke. He uses scraps to mend the book, but falls through the repaired pages into the past preserved within its leaves. There he finds courier riders erased by court historians, rivers that vanished into seas o
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The Mountains and Rivers Beyond the Scrolls 帙外山河
In the second year of the Jiaxi era of the Southern Song dynasty, rain swells the waters around Lin’an. Book-restoration artisan Ying Heng enters the city carrying an old book box left by his late father. He only hopes to secure a job repairing damaged books in the Secret Archives, so he can buy back the signboard from his hometown bookstore, which is about to be sold off to cover its debts. But in the worm-eaten layers of a Tang-era volume titled Old Notes on Mountains and Rivers, he discovers
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The Book Corrector Never Sleeps 校书人未眠
Qiao Jibai, a restorer of ancient books, receives a fragment of a Northern Song manuscript with no known provenance. It records the waterways of Bianjing, but twelve pages have been neatly cut out. At the bottom of a page, only half a sentence remains: **"After the waters recede, the names must not."** While restoring a smudged ink mark, he hears the sound of a page turning from the other side of the paper. When he opens his eyes, he is in the Chongwen Institute during the Daguang era of the Nor
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Echoes on Paper in Bianjing 汴京纸上有回声
Yu Zhen had spent his whole life restoring old papers left behind by others. He knew better than anyone that when a page of a book is destroyed, it is not just a few lines that disappear. An anonymous Song dynasty manuscript was brought into the restoration room. On its pages were Bianjing's streets, washed away by water; account books never recorded in the histories; and a sentence that changed every day: "Proofreader Yu Zhen, died in the winter of the third year of Qingli." When he touched the
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Beyond the Annals of the Land 山河册外
In the second year of Yuanfeng, a map was brought under guard into the court of the Court of Judicial Review. The map showed a river the authorities refused to acknowledge and a village absent from the official gazetteers. The courier who brought it to the capital died outside the Vermilion Bird Gate, leaving behind only half a sentence: The map is not wrong. The world is. Lin Shenwei, a copyist in the Imperial Library, was ordered to examine the map. He could remember every road he had ever tra
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The Tide Stirs in the Tattered Scroll 残卷听潮生
On a snowy night in the winter of 1861, the first after Hangzhou fell, the books of the Wenlan Pavilion Library were treated as wastepaper and carted off to a paper mill. Xi Wangye, an apprentice papermaker, pulled a page from the Complete Library of the Four Treasuries out of a boiling vat of pulp. As water washed over the old ink, he heard half a sentence spoken by a proofreader long dead, as well as the whereabouts of thirty-six chests of books secretly removed from Gushan. On one side were a
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