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Author: Xiumin Zhang
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Published: 2009
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781931907613
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This is your significant contribution to the study of Chinese printing history."--Dr. Soren Edgren, Princeton University, and Chinese book specialist.
Author: Cynthia J. Brokaw
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2005-03-07
Total Pages: 559
ISBN-13: 0520927796
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDespite 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, written by historians, art historians, and literary scholars, introduces the major issues in the social and cultural history of the book in late imperial China. Informed by many insights from the rich literature on the history of the Western book, these essays investigate the relationship between the manuscript and print culture; the emergence of urban and rural publishing centers; the expanding audience for books; the development of niche markets and specialized publishing of fiction, drama, non-Han texts, and genealogies; and more.
Author: Emily Mokros
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2021-05-20
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 029574880X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the Qing dynasty (1644–1911), China experienced far greater access to political information than suggested by the blunt measures of control and censorship employed by modern Chinese regimes. A tenuous partnership between the court and the dynamic commercial publishing enterprises of late imperial China enabled the publication of gazettes in a wide range of print and manuscript formats. For both domestic and foreign readers these official gazettes offered vital information about the Qing state and its activities, transmitting state news across a vast empire and beyond. And the most essential window onto Qing politics was the Peking Gazette, a genre that circulated globally over the course of the dynasty. This illuminating study presents a comprehensive history of the Peking Gazette and frames it as the cornerstone of a Qing information policy that, paradoxically, prized both transparency and secrecy. Gazettes gave readers a glimpse into the state’s inner workings but also served as a carefully curated form of public relations. Historian Emily Mokros draws from international archives to reconstruct who read the gazette and how they used it to guide their interactions with the Chinese state. Her research into the Peking Gazette’s evolution over more than two centuries is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the relationship between media, information, and state power.
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2011-02-17
Total Pages: 446
ISBN-13: 9004193863
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe essays in this volume seek to flesh out the diversity of Chinese textual production during the period spanning the tenth and fourteenth centuries when printing became a widely used technology. By exploring the social and political relations that shaped the production and reproduction of printed texts, the impact of intellectual and religious formations on book production, the interaction between print and other media, readership, and the growth of collections, the contributors offer the first comprehensive examination of the cultural history of book production in the first 500 years of the history of printing. In an afterword historian of the early modern European book, Ann Blair, reflects on the volume's implications for the comparative study of the impact of printing.
Author: Yinke Deng
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-03-03
Total Pages: 163
ISBN-13: 0521186927
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAncient Chinese Inventions provides an illustrated introduction to the numerous scientific and technological inventions to which China can lay claim.
Author: Cynthia Brokaw
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2010-10-07
Total Pages: 455
ISBN-13: 9004185275
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese essays examine the transformation of Chinese print culture over the past two centuries during which new technologies, intellectual change, and sociopolitical upheavals expanded reading audiences, spawned new genres of print, and reshaped the relationship between publishing and the state.
Author: Christopher A. Reed
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2011-11-01
Total Pages: 414
ISBN-13: 0774841214
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRelying on documents previously unavailable to both Western and Chinese researchers, this history demonstrates how Western technology and evolving traditional values resulted in the birth of a unique form of print capitalism that would have a far-reaching and irreversible influence on Chinese culture. In the mid-1910s, what historians call the "Golden Age of Chinese Capitalism" began, accompanied by a technological transformation that included the drastic expansion of China's "Gutenberg revolution." This is a vital reevaluation of Chinese modernity that refutes views that China's technological development was slowed by culture or that Chinese modernity was mere cultural continuity.
Author: Yoshinobu Shiba
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1970
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStudies the development of communications and transport in Sung and Yuan times, the formation of a nationwide market and the development of cities and markets during the Sung Dynasty, and the characteristics of commercial capital
Author: Anne Farrer
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Published: 2021-12-08
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789004471894
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHandbook of the Colour Print in China 1600-1800' is a ground-breaking volume of collected research into colour woodblock printed imagery produced in early modern China. The emergence and development of colour woodblock imagery occurred first in book illustrations and then in single-sheet prints. 0Leading scholars of Chinese print culture trace the emergence of a sophisticated and fully developed colour woodblock print technology between the late Ming and mid-Qing. This volume examines the impact of colour prints on Qing visual culture through interdisciplinary studies investigating literary and artistic contexts, social and economic histories, and dating through European inventoried collections. 0Richly illustrated with full-colour reproductions, this volume is an essential contribution to the future study of Chinese print and book culture.
Author: Timothy Hugh Barrett
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Published: 2008
Total Pages: 200
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKT.H. Barrett, a leading scholar of medieval China, presents an engaging perspective on the history of printing and the intriguing story of Empress Wu (AD 625-705).
