Commerce in Culture: The Sibao Book Trade in the Qing and Republican Periods
(Book #280 in the Harvard East Asian Monographs Series)
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Sibao today is a cluster of impoverished villages in the mountains of western Fujian. Yet from the late seventeenth through the early twentieth century, it was home to a flourishing publishing industry. Through itinerant booksellers and branch bookshops managed by Sibao natives, this industry supplied much of south China with cheap educational texts, household guides, medical handbooks, and fortune-telling manuals. It is precisely the ordinariness...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0674024494
ISBN13:9780674024496
Release Date:April 2007
Publisher:Harvard University Press
Length:673 Pages
Weight:2.43 lbs.
Dimensions:2.0" x 6.5" x 9.2"
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