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Printing and book culture in late imperial China

Cynthia Joanne Brokaw and Kai-wing Chow c2005 © University of California Press
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  • ACLS Fellows’ Publications
ISBN(s)
  • 9780520231269 (hardcover)
  • 9780520927797 (ebook)
Subject
  • Asian: China and Inner Asia
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  • Table of Contents

  • Reviews

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  • Cover
  • Frontmatter
  • LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND TABLES (page vii)
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (page xiii)
  • ABBREVIATIONS (page xv)
  • PART I: INTRODUCTION
    • 1. On the History of the Book in China (Cynthia J. Brokaw, page 3)
    • 2. The Ascendance of the Imprint in China (Joseph McDermott, page 55)
  • PART II: COMMERCIAL PUBLISHING AND THE EXPANDING MARKET FOR BOOKS
    • 3. Of Three Mountains Street: The Commercial Publishers of Ming Nanjing (Lucille Chia, page 107)
    • 4. Constructing New Reading Publics in Late Ming China (Anne E. McLaren, page 152)
    • 5. Reading the Best-Sellers of the Nineteenth Century: Commercial Publishing in Sibao (Cynthia J. Brokaw, page 184)
  • PART III: PUBLISHING FOR SPECIALIZED AUDIENCES
    • 6. Niche Marketing for Late Imperial Fiction (Robert E. Hegel, page 235)
    • 7. Printing as Performance: Literati Playwright-Publishers of the Late Ming (Katherine Carlitz, page 267)
    • 8. Qing Publishing in Non-Han Languages (Evelyn S. Rawski, page 304)
    • 9. "Preserving the Bonds of Kin": Genealogy Masters and Genealogy Production in the Jiangsu-Zhejiang Area in the Qing and Republican Periods (Xu Xiaoman, page 332)
  • 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 (Anne Burkus-Chasson, page 371)
    • 11. Didactic Illustrations in Printed Books (Julia K. Murray, page 417)
  • GLOSSARY (page 451)
  • WORKS CITED (page 471)
  • CONTRIBUTIONS (page 511)
  • INDEX (page 513)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
CRI 12.2 (Fall. 2005): 377-380 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/198919
LCR 43.1 (2008): 120-122 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/231108
CLEAR 27 (Dec. 2005): 184-187 http://www.jstor.org/stable/30039112
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