Commerce in Culture : : The Sibao Book Trade in the Qing and Republican Periods / / Cynthia J. Brokaw.

• Superior document: Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 280
• VerfasserIn: Brokaw, Cynthia J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : Harvard University Asia Center,, 2007.; Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2007.
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 280.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- The Sibao Book Trade and Qing Society -- The Setting: Minxi and Sibao -- The Origins of Publishing and the Production of Books in Sibao -- The Structure of the Sibao Publishing Industry -- "We are all brothers": Household Division, the Proliferation of Publishing Houses, and the Management of Competition -- Sibao Bookselling Routes -- Sojourning Bookselling and the Operation of the Branch Shops -- Sibao's "Confucian Merchants" in Minxi Society and the Late Imperial Economy -- The Nature and Sources of Sibao Imprints -- Educational Works -- Guides to Good Manners, Good Health, and Good Fortune -- Fiction and Belles-Lettres -- Sibao's Customers and Popular Textual Culture in the Qing -- The Diffusion of Print Culture in Qing China -- Transport Routes Within the Min-Gan-Yue Region -- Value of Woodblocks from the Juxian tang and Dawen tang, 1897 -- Genealogical Charts -- Works Cited -- Index.