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Printing and book culture in late imperial China
Cynthia Joanne Brokaw and Kai-wing Chow-
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)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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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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Published: c2005
Publisher: University of California Press
- 9780520927797 (ebook)
- 9780520231269 (hardcover)