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Journal Article
Book and Print Culture in Pre-Modern China
2016
Overview
(1921-1990) produced path-breaking studies of printers and illustrators of vernacular fiction; this work was significantly augmented by the broader historical studies of book production centers by Lucille Chia, Cynthia J. Brokaw, and others.8 Ming-Qing printers who produced works of fiction have been exhaustively traced by Wang Qingyuan ??? and his collaborators. 9 Joseph McDermott has provided studies of book collectors and their libraries as well as of the appreciation shown to books through time.10 How works of fiction were read can now be gleaned through studies of prefaces and commentaries; in studies of the latter, David Rolston edited a collection of major premodern interpretive essays and has written a comprehensive introduction to fiction commentaries. 11 And Kai-wing Chow has produced an excellent study of print culture in general in his Publishing, Culture, and Power in Early Modern China and subsequent publications.12 Anne McLaren has worked tirelessly in interpreting various versions of story cycles, various adaptations, and their differing cultural implications.13 Recent New Directions Over the last two decades scholarship on book history and print culture has taken significant strides toward exploring particular facets of the book that will better illuminate the general field.
