The History of the Book in East Asia

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Contents: Introduction Part I China: The making of an imprint in China, 1000-1800, Joseph McDermott Tu and Shu: illustrated manuscripts in the great age of song printing, Maggie Bickford Byways in the Imperial Chinese information order: the dissemination and commercial publication of state documents, Hilde de Weerdt Mashaben: commercial publishing in Jianyang from the Song to the Ming, Lucille Chia Ming audiences and vernacular hermeneutics: the uses of The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Anne E. McLaren Writing for success: printing, examinations, and intellectual change in late Ming China, Kai-wing Chow The Huanduzhai of Hangzhou and Suzhou: a study in 17th-century publishing, Ellen Widmer Visual hermeneutics and the act of turning the leaf: a genealogy of Liu Yuan's Lingyan ge, Anne Burkus-Chasson Commercial publishing in late Imperial China: the Zou and Ma family businesses of Sibao, Fujian, Cynthia J. Brokaw. Part II Korea: Propagating female virtues in Choson Korea, Martina Deuchler Literary production, circulating libraries, and private publishing: the popular reception of vernacular fiction texts in the late Choson dynasty, Michael Kim. Part III Japan: Centres of printing in medieval Japan: late Heian to early Edo period, K.B. Gardner Provincial publishing in the Tokugawa period, P.F. Kornicki Manuscript, not print: scribal culture in the Edo Period, P.F. Kornicki The transfer of learning: the import of Chinese and Dutch books in Tokugawa Japan, W.J. Boot The Daiso lending library of Nagoya, 1767-1899, Andrew Markus Books and book illustrations in early modern Japan, Ekkehard May The history of the book in Edo and Paris, Henry D. Smith II Entrepreneurship and culture: the Hakubunkan publishing empire in Meiji Japan, Giles Richter Name index.