Format:
XXIII, 673 S.
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Ill., Kt
ISBN:
0674024494
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9780674024496
Series Statement:
Harvard East Asian monographs 280
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [603]-636) and index
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Introduction : the Sibao book trade and Qing society -- The setting : Minxi and Sibao -- The origins of publishing and the production of books in Sibao -- The structure of the Sibao publishing industry -- "We are all brothers" : household division, the proliferation of publishing houses, and the management of competition -- Sibao bookselling routes -- Sojourning bookselling and the operation of the branch shops -- Sibao's "Confucian merchants" in Minxi society and the late Imperial economy -- The nature and sources of Sibao imprints -- Educational works -- Guides to good manners, good health, and good fortune -- Fiction and belles-lettres -- Sibao's customers and popular textual culture in the Qing -- The diffusion of print culture in Qing China
Language:
English
Keywords:
Sibao
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Buchhandel
;
Geschichte 1644-1949
;
Sibao
;
Buchdruck
;
Geschichte 1644-1949
;
Sibao
;
Buchdruck
;
Qingdynastie
;
Geschichte
;
Sibao
;
Buchhandel
;
Qingdynastie
;
Geschichte
;
Sibao
;
Buchhandel
;
Buchproduktion
;
Verlag
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China
;
Verlagssystem
;
Buchhandel
;
Netzwerk
;
Hakka
;
Hochschulschrift
Author information:
Brokaw, Cynthia Joanne 1950-
