Nanking ranks first among cities for wealth of its books, and most of these are in Three
Mountains Street, where I keep the largest bookshop. Here are the Thirteen Classics, the …

The history of the book and the impact of print culture are relatively new subjects in
scholarship on late imperial China. While some work has already been done on the literary …

The case of Sibao, an important regional publishing center active from the late seventeenth
through the early twentieth century, illustrates the special nature of the expansion in …

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 Chinese have printed their books for over eleven centuries, but little is known about the
people involved in the book trade. So far, most of what is known about Chinese books …

Scholars have long recognized the significance of printing in the dissemination of
knowledge, promotion of new ideas and consequently as a force of social and economic …

The morning arrival of book boats was a welcome sight to Chen Zhan, a distinguished
scholar and book collector. As he notes in the comment accompanying his poem, there were …

From the eleventh through the seventeenth centuries, the publishers of Jianyang in Fujian
province played a conspicuous role in the Chinese book trade. Unlike the products of …

Books and their production were a key part of the late imperial commodity economy and of
the gentry lifestyle that eventually extended into the Republican (1912-1949) era …

The social history of the printed book in China is explored by focusing on three families of
commercial printers (Liu, Yu, and Xiong) in the Jianyang area of northwestern Fujian during …