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Traditional techniques in contemporary chinese printmaking
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ISBN: 0824829913 9780824829919 Year: 2005 Volume: *1 Publisher: Honolulu University of Hawai'i Press


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Home and the World : Editing the Glorious Ming in Woodblock-Printed Books of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
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ISBN: 9780674066809 9781684170661 Year: 2013 Volume: 82 Publisher: Boston : Leiden; Boston : Harvard University Asia Center BRILL


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Revolution as restoration : "Guocui xuebao" China's path to modernity, 1905-1911
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ISBN: 9789004247802 Year: 2013 Volume: 6 Publisher: Leiden [etc.] Brill


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Copyright and the public interest in China.
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ISBN: 9780857931061 0857931067 Year: 2011 Publisher: Cheltenham Elgar

Consuming literature : best sellers and the commercialization of literary production in contemporary China
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ISBN: 0804767378 1423716574 9781423716570 9780804767378 0804749396 080474940X 9780804749398 9780804749404 Year: 2005 Publisher: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press,

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This book examines the changes taking place in literary writing and publishing in contemporary China under the influence of the emerging market economy. It focuses on the revival of literary best sellers in the Chinese book market and the establishment of a best-seller production machine. The author examines how writers have become cultural entrepreneurs, how state publishing houses are now motivated by commercial incentives, and how “second-channel,” unofficial publishers and distributors both compete and cooperate with official publishing houses in a dual-track, socialist-capitalist economic system. Taken together, these changes demonstrate how economic development and culture interact in a postsocialist society, in contrast to the way they work in the mature capitalist economies of the West. That economic reforms have affected many aspects of Chinese society is well known, but this is the first comprehensive analysis of market influences in the literary field. This book thus offers a fresh perspective on the inner workings of contemporary Chinese society.


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Print, profit, and perception : ideas, information and knowledge in Chinese societies, 1895-1949
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ISBN: 9789004259102 Year: 2014 Volume: 28 Publisher: Leiden [etc.] Brill

Chen Jiru (1558-1639) : the background to development and subsequent uses of literary personae
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ISBN: 9789004163584 9004163581 9786611940058 1281940054 9047422570 9789047422570 9781281940056 6611940057 Year: 2007 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

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Chen Jiru (1558-1639) was one of the great late-Ming arbiters of culture and taste, and the impact of his innovations can still be traced in present-day China. In late Ming, when culture and taste enjoyed a social prestige beyond their usual standing, Chen's influence appears even greater than it may have otherwise. This is the first major work in any language to examine Chen's background, make a contrastive study of the genres he utilised in forging his literary reputation, and to examine the use that publishers and others have made since of the literary personae he constructed. A study clearly of interest to historians of early Modern China, as well as to those who study cultural and print histories of both East and West.

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