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.