UID:
almahu_9949703964302882
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9781684174508
,
9780674024496
Series Statement:
Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 280
Note:
Preliminary Material -- 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 -- Transport Routes Within the Min-Gan-Yue Region -- Value of Woodblocks from the Juxian tang and Dawen tang, 1897 -- Genealogical Charts -- Works Cited -- Index.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Commerce in Culture: The Sibao Book Trade in the Qing and Republican Periods. Boston : Harvard University Asia Center, 2007 ISBN 9780674024496
Language:
English
