This book is a path-breaking study of print culture in early modern China. It argues that printing with both woodblocks and movable type exerted a profound influence on Chinese society in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The book examines the rise and impact of print culture from both economic and cultural perspectives.
In economic terms, the central issues were the price of books and the costs of book production. Chow argues that contrary to accepted views, inexpensive books were widely available to a growing literate population. An analysis of the economic and operating advantages of woodblock printing explains why it remained the dominant technology even as the use of movable type was expanding.
The cultural focus shows the impact of commercial publishing on the production of literary culture, particularly on the civil service examination. The expansion of the book market produced publicity for literary professionals whose authority came to challenge the authority of the official examiners.
具體描述
讀後感
This work is a part of a larger project on the role of printing in the production of an alternative literary culture in this period. (p.1). Chow suggests that the expansion of commercial publishing facilitated the growth of a class of literary profession...
評分Two lines in this study call for attention: 1) the relation between state, market and literati; 2) the comparison between traditional Chinese and European print histories. It aptly explains the first concern on page 1: [this study] focuses on the effect of...
評分Two lines in this study call for attention: 1) the relation between state, market and literati; 2) the comparison between traditional Chinese and European print histories. It aptly explains the first concern on page 1: [this study] focuses on the effect of...
評分Two lines in this study call for attention: 1) the relation between state, market and literati; 2) the comparison between traditional Chinese and European print histories. It aptly explains the first concern on page 1: [this study] focuses on the effect of...
評分This work is a part of a larger project on the role of printing in the production of an alternative literary culture in this period. (p.1). Chow suggests that the expansion of commercial publishing facilitated the growth of a class of literary profession...
用戶評價
Finally, the professional critics...
评分完全沒必要拋齣一些概念和理論，海外中國史學傢的兩難局麵可見一斑
评分太過倚重西方的理論，反而使有些地方顯得空洞
评分Finally, the professional critics...
评分Finally, the professional critics...
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