Printing and book culture in late imperial China

Table of Contents

• Cover
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• Frontmatter
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• LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND TABLES (page vii)
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• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (page xiii)
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• ABBREVIATIONS (page xv)
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• PART I: INTRODUCTION
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  • 1. On the History of the Book in China (Cynthia J. Brokaw, page 3)
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  • 2. The Ascendance of the Imprint in China (Joseph McDermott, page 55)
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• PART II: COMMERCIAL PUBLISHING AND THE EXPANDING MARKET FOR BOOKS
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  • 3. Of Three Mountains Street: The Commercial Publishers of Ming Nanjing (Lucille Chia, page 107)
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  • 4. Constructing New Reading Publics in Late Ming China (Anne E. McLaren, page 152)
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  • 5. Reading the Best-Sellers of the Nineteenth Century: Commercial Publishing in Sibao (Cynthia J. Brokaw, page 184)
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• PART III: PUBLISHING FOR SPECIALIZED AUDIENCES
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  • 6. Niche Marketing for Late Imperial Fiction (Robert E. Hegel, page 235)
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  • 7. Printing as Performance: Literati Playwright-Publishers of the Late Ming (Katherine Carlitz, page 267)
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  • 8. Qing Publishing in Non-Han Languages (Evelyn S. Rawski, page 304)
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  • 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)
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• PART IV: THE BOOK AS A VISUAL MEDIUM
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  • 10. Visual Hermeneutics and the Act of Turning the Leaf: A Genealogy of Liu Yuan's Lingyan ge (Anne Burkus-Chasson, page 371)
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  • 11. Didactic Illustrations in Printed Books (Julia K. Murray, page 417)
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• GLOSSARY (page 451)
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• WORKS CITED (page 471)
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• CONTRIBUTIONS (page 511)
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• INDEX (page 513)
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