Printing And The Press In Pre Modern China
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Printing and the Press in Pre modern China
Author | : L. Sophia Wang |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Chinese newspapers |
ISBN | : IND:30000020656496 |
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Publishing Culture and Power in Early Modern China
Author | : Kai-wing Chow |
Publsiher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780804733687 |
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This path-breaking book argues that printing—both with woodblocks and with movable type—exerted a profound influence on Chinese society in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
The Power of Print in Modern China
Author | : Robert Culp |
Publsiher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 409 |
Release | : 2019-05-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780231545358 |
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Amid early twentieth-century China’s epochal shifts, a vital and prolific commercial publishing industry emerged. Recruiting late Qing literati, foreign-trained academics, and recent graduates of the modernized school system to work as authors and editors, publishers produced textbooks, reference books, book series, and reprints of classical texts in large quantities at a significant profit. Work for major publishers provided a living to many Chinese intellectuals and offered them a platform to transform Chinese cultural life. In The Power of Print in Modern China, Robert Culp explores the world of commercial publishing to offer a new perspective on modern China’s cultural transformations. Culp examines China’s largest and most influential publishing companies—Commercial Press, Zhonghua Book Company, and World Book Company—during the late Qing and Republican periods and into the early years of the People’s Republic. He reconstructs editors’ cultural activities and work lives as a lens onto the role of intellectuals in cultural change. Examining China’s distinct modes of industrial publishing, Culp explains the emergence of the modern Chinese intellectual through commercial and industrial processes rather than solely through political revolution and social movements. An original account of Chinese intellectual and cultural history as well as global book history, The Power of Print in Modern China illuminates the production of new forms of knowledge and culture in the twentieth century.
Printing and Book Culture in Late Imperial China
Author | : Cynthia J. Brokaw,Kai-Wing Chow |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 1118 |
Release | : 2005-03-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520927797 |
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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, written by historians, art historians, and literary scholars, introduces the major issues in the social and cultural history of the book in late imperial China. Informed by many insights from the rich literature on the history of the Western book, these essays investigate the relationship between the manuscript and print culture; the emergence of urban and rural publishing centers; the expanding audience for books; the development of niche markets and specialized publishing of fiction, drama, non-Han texts, and genealogies; and more.
Publishing Culture and Power in Early Modern China
Author | : Kai-wing Chow |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2022 |
Genre | : HISTORY |
ISBN | : 1503617521 |
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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.
From Woodblocks to the Internet
Author | : Cynthia Brokaw,Christopher A. Reed |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 455 |
Release | : 2010-10-07 |
Genre | : Design |
ISBN | : 9789004185272 |
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These essays examine the transformation of Chinese print culture over the past two centuries during which new technologies, intellectual change, and sociopolitical upheavals expanded reading audiences, spawned new genres of print, and reshaped the relationship between publishing and the state.
The Invention of Printing in China and Its Spread Westward
Author | : Thomas Francis Carter |
Publsiher | : New York, Ronald |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 1955 |
Genre | : Printing |
ISBN | : UCAL:B4194684 |
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Religious Publishing and Print Culture in Modern China
Author | : Philip Clart,Gregory Adam Scott |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 355 |
Release | : 2014-12-16 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781614512981 |
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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 contemporary world continues to expand, and with it has come an urgent need to understand the processes by which its modern history was made. Issues of religious freedom and of religion's influence on the public sphere continue to be contentious but important subjects of scholarly work, and the role of print and textual media has not dimmed with the advent of electronic communication. This book, Religious Publishing and Print Culture in Modern China1800-2012, speaks to these contemporary and historical issues by bringing to light the important and abiding connections between religious development and modern print culture in China. Bringing together these two subjects has a great deal of potential for producing insights that will appeal to scholars working in a range of fields, from media studies to social historians. Each chapter demonstrates how focusing on the role of publishing among religious groups in modern China generates new insights and raises new questions. They examine how religious actors understood the role of printed texts in religion, dealt with issues of translation and exegesis, produced print media that heralded social and ideological changes, and expressed new self-understandings in their published works. They also address the impact of new technologies, such as mechanized movable type and lithographic presses, in the production and meaning of religious texts. Finally, the chapters identify where religious print culture crossed confessional lines, connecting religious traditions through links of shared textual genres, commercial publishing companies, and the contributions of individual editors and authors. This book thus demonstrates how, in embracing modern print media and building upon their longstanding traditional print cultures, Christian, Buddhist, Daoist, and popular religious groups were developed and defined in modern China. While the chapter authors are specialists in religious traditions, they have made use of recent studies into publishing and print culture, and like many of the subjects of their research, are able to make connections across religious boundaries and link together seemingly discrete traditions.