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Author(s): Cynthia J. Brokaw (Editor), Kai-Wing Chow (Editor)
ISBN(s): 9780520231269, 0520231260
Edition: [2. Aufl.].
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Year: 2006
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0520231260 
ISBN 13: 9780520231269
Author: Cynthia J Brokaw, Kai Wing Chow

Despite the importance of books and the written word in Chinese society, the history of the book in China is a topic that has been little explored. This pioneering volume of essays, written by historians, art historians, and literary scholars, introduces the major issues in the social and cultural history of the book in late imperial China. Informed by many insights from the rich literature on the history of the Western book, these essays investigate the relationship between the manuscript and print culture; the emergence of urban and rural publishing centers; the expanding audience for books; the development of niche markets and specialized publishing of fiction, drama, non-Han texts, and genealogies; and more.

Printing and book culture in late Imperial China 1st Table of contents:

PART I: INTRODUCTION

  1. On the History of the Book in China

  2. The Ascendance of the Imprint in China

PART II: COMMERCIAL PUBLISHING AND THE EXPANDING MARKET FOR BOOKS
3. Of Three Mountains Street: The Commercial Publishers of Ming Nanjing
4. Constructing New Reading Publics in Late Ming China
5. Reading the Best-Sellers of the Nineteenth Century: Commercial Publishing in Sibao

PART III: PUBLISHING FOR SPECIALIZED AUDIENCES
6. Niche Marketing for Late Imperial Fiction
7. Printing as Performance: Literati Playwright-Publishers of the Late Ming
8. Qing Publishing in Non-Han Languages
9. “Preserving the Bonds of Kin”: Genealogy Masters and Genealogy Production in the Jiangsu-Zhejiang

PART IV: THE BOOK AS A VISUAL MEDIUM
10. Visual Hermeneutics and the Act of Turning the Leaf: A Genealogy of Liu Yuan’s Lingyan ge
11. Didactic Illustrations in Printed Books

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