Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Brokaw, Cynthia Joanne
2. Kornicki, Peter F. (Peter Francis)

Description

1. xxxv, 604 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Series statement

1. History of the book in the East

Uniform title

1. History of the book in the East.

Alternative title

1. Book in East Asia

Subject

1. Books > East Asia > History
2. Printing > East Asia > History
3. Printing
4. Books
5. Buch
6. Geschichte
7. East Asia
8. Ostasien

Genre/Form

1. History.

Contents

1. Part I. China. The making of an imprint in China, 1000-1800 / Joseph McDermott; Tu and Shu: illustrated manuscripts in the great age of song printing / Maggie Bickford -- Byways in the Imperial Chinese information order: the dissemination and commercial publication of state documents / Hilde de Weerdt -- Mashaben: commercial publishing in Jianyang from the Song to the Ming / Lucille Chia -- Ming audiences and vernacular hermeneutics: the uses of The Romance of the Three Kingdoms / Anne E. McLaren -- Writing for success: printing, examinations, and intellectual change in late Ming China / Kai-wing Chow -- The Huanduzhai of Hangzhou and Suzhou: a study in 17th-century publishing / Ellen Widmer -- Visual hermeneutics and the act of turning the leaf: a genealogy of Liu Yuan's Lingyan ge / Anne Burkus-Chasson -- Commercial publishing in late Imperial China: the Zou and Ma family businesses of Sibao, Fujian / Cynthia J. Brokaw.
2. Part II. Korea. Propagating female virtues in Choson Korea / Martina Deuchler -- Literary production, circulating libraries, and private publishing: the popular reception of vernacular fiction texts in the late Choson dynasty / Michael Kim.
3. Part III. Japan. Centres of printing in medieval Japan: late Heian to early Edo period / K.B. Gardner -- Provincial publishing in the Tokugawa period / P.F. Kornicki -- Manuscript, not print: scribal culture in the Edo Period / P.F. Kornicki -- The transfer of learning: the import of Chinese and Dutch books in Tokugawa Japan / W.J. Boot -- The Daiso lending library of Nagoya, 1767-1899 / Andrew Markus -- Books and book illustrations in early modern Japan / Ekkehard May -- The history of the book in Edo and Paris / Henry D. Smith II -- Entrepreneurship and culture: the Hakubunkan publishing empire in Meiji Japan / Giles Richter.

Call number

1. JFF 15-658

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title

1. The history of the book in East Asia / edited by Cynthia Brokaw (Brown University, USA) / Peter Kornicki (University of Cambridge, UK).

Publisher

1. Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT, USA : Ashgate, [2013]

Copyright date

1. ©2013

Type of content

1. text
2. still image

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. History of the book in the East
2. History of the book in the East.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added author

1. Brokaw, Cynthia Joanne, editor.
2. Kornicki, Peter F. (Peter Francis), editor.

ISBN

1. 9781409437819 (hbk.)
2. 1409437817 (hbk.)

Research call number

1. JFF 15-658