Commerce in culture : the Sibao book trade in the Qing and Republican periods /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2007. |
| Series: | Harvard East Asian monographs ;
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| Online Access: | Table of contents only |
Table of Contents:
- Tables, Maps, and Figures
- Notes to the Reader
- 1. Introduction: The Sibao Book Trade and Qing Society
- The Expansion of Commercial Publishing in the Qing
- Sources for the Study of Sibao Publishing-Bookselling
- Part I. The Business of Book Publishing and Bookselling in Sibao
- 2. The Setting: Minxi and Sibao
- Minxi
- Sibao and the Zou and Ma Lineages
- 3. The Origins of Publishing and the Production of Books in Sibao
- The Beginnings of Publishing in Wuge and Mawu
- The History of the Zou and Ma Publishing houses: An Overview
- Producing Books in Sibao
- Conclusion
- 4. The Structure of the Sibao Publishing Industry
- Publishing Houses as Household Industries Within the Zou and Ma Lineages
- The Income from Publishing-Bookselling
- The Use of Earnings
- 5. "We are all brothers": Household Division, the Proliferation of Publishing Houses, and the Management of Competition
- Family Division and the Development of New Publishing Houses
- Managing Intra-Lineage Competition Among Publishing Households: Customary Rules and Practices
- Managing Inter-Lineage Competition
- 6. Sibao Bookselling Routes
- The Book Market in Sibao
- Bookselling Networks Outside Sibao
- The Pattern of Sibao Bookselling: Why They Went Where They Went
- Conclusion
- 7. Sojourning Bookselling and the Operation of the Branch Shops
- Life on the Road: Itinerant Bookselling
- Branch Bookstores
- 8. Sibao's "Confucian Merchants" in Minxi Society and the Late Imperial Economy
- "Confucian Merchants": The Image of the Sibao Publisher-Booksellers
- The Zou and Ma Publishing Families as Local Gentry
- The Sibao Publisher-Booksellers in the Late Imperial Economy
- Part II. Sibao Imprints
- 9. The Nature and Sources of Sibao Imprints
- Overview of Sibao's Output
- The Sources of Sibao Texts
- 10. Educational Works
- Primers and Glossaries for Beginning Students
- Beyond "Primer Literacy": Supplemental Texts for Elementary Education
- Textbooks for Composition
- Poetry Anthologies and Manuals
- The Heart of the Curriculum: The Classics
- Beyond the Four Books and Five Classics
- Conclusion
- 11. Guides to Good Manners, Good Health, and Good Fortune
- Household Encyclopedias and Guides to the Rituals of Daily Life
- Medical and Pharmaceutical Manuals
- Guides to Good Fortune: Almanacs, Fengshui and Divination Manuals, and Morality Books
- Conclusion
- 12. Fiction and Belles-Lettres
- Fiction
- Drama and Songbooks
- The Elite Arts: Poetry Collections and Calligraphy and Painting Albums
- Conclusion
- 13. Sibao's Customers and Popular Textual Culture in the Qing
- Audience and the Prices of Sibao Imprints
- The Production Quality of Sibao Imprints
- Sibao and Popular Textual Culture
- The Stability of Sibao's Popular Canon
- 14. The Diffusion of Print Culture in Qing China
- Sibao in Context: Other Commercial Publishing Sites of the Qing
- The Circulation of Texts in the Qing
- The Book Culmres of the Qing
- Literacy, Social Status, and Political Power
- Appendixes
- A. Transport Routes Within the Min-Gan-Yue Region
- B. Value of Woodblocks from the Juxian tang and Dawen tang, 1897
- C. Genealogical Charts
- D. Sibao Publishing Houses and Publisher-Booksellers
- E. Sites of Sibao Bookselling and the Zou and Ma Booksellers
- F. Sites of Zou and Ma Migration in the Qing
- G. List of Sibao Imprints
- Reference Matter
- Works Cited
- Index