Religious Publishing and Print Culture in Modern China : : 1800-2012 / / ed. by Philip Clart, Gregory Adam Scott.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package
• MitwirkendeR: Berezkin, Rostislav,; Chi-on, Yau,; Chien-Chuan, Wang,; Chui-Shan Chow, Christie,; Clart, Philip,; Kam Wah Mak, George,; Katz, Paul R.,; Scott, Gregory Adam,; Tse-Hei Lee, Joseph,
• HerausgeberIn: Clart, Philip ,; Scott, Gregory Adam,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2014]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Religion and Society , 58
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (349 p.)

Scholarly interest in print culture and in the study of religion in modern China has increased in recent years, propelled by maturing approaches to the study of cultural history and by a growing recognition that both were important elements of China's recent past. The influence of China in the...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Table of Contents
• Introduction: Print Culture and Religion in Chinese History
• Chapter One: The Colportage of the Protestant Bible in Late Qing China: The Example of the British and Foreign Bible Society
• Chapter Two: Publishing Prophecy: A Century of Adventist Print Culture in China
• Chapter Three: Navigating the Sea of Scriptures: The Buddhist Studies Collectanea, 1918–1923
• Chapter Four: Printing and Circulating “Precious Scrolls” in Early Twentieth-Century Shanghai and its Vicinity: Toward an Assessment of Multifunctionality of the Genre
• Chapter Five: The Xiantiandao and Publishing in the Guangzhou-Hong Kong Area from the Late Qing to the 1930s: The Case of the Morality Book Publisher Wenzaizi
• Chapter Six: Morality Book Publishing and Popular Religion in Modern China: A Discussion Centered on Morality Book Publishers in Shanghai
• Chapter Seven: Illuminating Goodness – Some Preliminary Considerations of Religious Publishing in Modern C
• Bibliography
• Contributors
• Index