This book is a path-breaking study of print culture in early modern China. It argues that printing with both woodblocks and movable type exerted a profound influence on Chinese …
" This book examines the widespread practice of self-publishing by writers in late imperial China, focusing on the relationships between manuscript tradition and print convention, peer …
T Meyer-Fong - The Journal of Asian Studies, 2007 - read.dukeupress.edu
Beginning in the late Ming period, China experienced a surge in the production and consumption of books. Printed pages bound into fascicles and housed in cases moved …
In more than one sense, Mark Edward Lewis) Writing and Authority in Early China is a monument of scholarship. First of all, its 544 pages constitute the most comprehensive …
CA Reed - From Woodblocks to the Internet, 2010 - brill.com
Introduction in an article examining the propaganda culture of the chinese communist party (ccp) between 1921 and 1927, hans J. van de ven observes that “[t] exts were, and are …
This book traces the emergence of the modern Chinese press from its origins in the western Christian missionary press in the late nineteenth century. It shows how the western …
The thirteen essays in this volume narrate and analyze the reciprocal influences of technological, intellectual, and sociopolitical changes on the structure of modern China's …
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 …
The existence or emergence of a" public sphere" in China in the 19t" century has been rather controversially debated in the field of Chinese studies during the last decade. In his …