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Writing for print : publishing and the making of textual authority in late imperial China / Suyoung Son.
LIBRA Z285.5 .S638 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Son, Suyoung, author.
- Series:
- Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ; 112.
- Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ; 112
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Self-publishing--China--History.
- Self-publishing.
- Printing--China--History.
- Printing.
- History.
- China.
- Censorship.
- Authorship.
- China--History--Qing dynasty, 1644-1912.
- Qing Dynasty (China).
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 249 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Asia Center, 2018.
- Summary:
- "Examines the widespread practice of self-publishing by writers in late imperial China, focusing on the inextricable relationships between manuscript tradition and print convention, between peer patronage and popular fame, and between gift exchange and commercial transactions in textual production and circulation"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Part I. Publishing practices of writers in the seventeenth century. The making of the printed text
- Publishing for reputation
- The economics of print
- Part II. Transregional impact in the eighteenth century. Censorship of installment publication in Qing China
- Transnational circulation of Tanji congshu and censorship in Chosŏn Korea
- Conclusion : publishing and the making of textual authority
- Appendix : bibliographical notes on extant editions of Zhang Chao.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-238) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674983830
- 0674983831
- OCLC:
- 1000385879
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