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List of Illustrations and Tables Acknowledgments Abbreviations PART I: INTRODUCTION 1. On the History of the Book in China--Cynthia J. Brokaw 2. The Ascendance of the Imprint in China--Joseph McDermott PART II: COMMERCIAL PUBLISHING AND THE EXPANDING MARKET FOR BOOKS 3. Of Three Mountains Street: The Commercial Publishers of Ming Nanjing--Lucille Chia 4. Constructing New Reading Publics in Late Ming China--Anne E. McLaren 5. Reading the Best-Sellers of the Nineteenth Century: Commercial Publications from Sibao--Cynthia J. Brokaw PART III: PUBLISHING FOR SPECIALIZED AUDIENCES 6. Niche Marketing for Late Imperial Chinese Fiction--Robert E. Hegel 7. Printing as Performance: Literati Playwright-Publishers of the Late Ming--Katherine Carlitz 8. Qing Publishing in Non-Han Languages--Evelyn S. Rawski 9. "Preserving the Bonds of Kin": Genealogy Masters and Genealogy Production in the Jiangsu-Zhejiang Area in the Qing and Republican Periods--Xu Xiaoman 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 11. Didactic Illustrations in Printed Books: Choice and Consequence--Julia K. Murray Glossary Works Cited Contributors

Printing Book Culture in Late Imperial China

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: 07/03/2005
      ISBN13: 9780520231269, 978-0520231269
      ISBN10: 0520231260
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      Table of Contents
      List of Illustrations and Tables Acknowledgments Abbreviations PART I: INTRODUCTION 1. On the History of the Book in China--Cynthia J. Brokaw 2. The Ascendance of the Imprint in China--Joseph McDermott PART II: COMMERCIAL PUBLISHING AND THE EXPANDING MARKET FOR BOOKS 3. Of Three Mountains Street: The Commercial Publishers of Ming Nanjing--Lucille Chia 4. Constructing New Reading Publics in Late Ming China--Anne E. McLaren 5. Reading the Best-Sellers of the Nineteenth Century: Commercial Publications from Sibao--Cynthia J. Brokaw PART III: PUBLISHING FOR SPECIALIZED AUDIENCES 6. Niche Marketing for Late Imperial Chinese Fiction--Robert E. Hegel 7. Printing as Performance: Literati Playwright-Publishers of the Late Ming--Katherine Carlitz 8. Qing Publishing in Non-Han Languages--Evelyn S. Rawski 9. "Preserving the Bonds of Kin": Genealogy Masters and Genealogy Production in the Jiangsu-Zhejiang Area in the Qing and Republican Periods--Xu Xiaoman 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 11. Didactic Illustrations in Printed Books: Choice and Consequence--Julia K. Murray Glossary Works Cited Contributors

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