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    The Art of Bookbinding

    Apr 22, 2021 2 minutes
    By Qin Bin

    With a cup of pu’er tea and a burning sandalwood incense stick on the desk, Zhang Xiaodong begins a day’s work at his studio in Yizhuang in the southeastern suburb of Beijing. Zhang is the inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage known as Dragon Scale Binding

    Also called Fish Scale Binding, Dragon Scale

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