A Social History of the Chinese Book – Books and Literati Culture in Late Imperial China

Joseph McDermott (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

308 Seiten

2006
Hong Kong University Press (Verlag)
978-962-209-782-7 (ISBN)

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Provides an account of the way Chinese books were printed, distributed, and consumed by literati and scholars, in the lower Yangzi delta, the cultural center of China. This book introduces interesting personalities, ranging from wily book collectors to an indigent shoe-repairman collector. It offers an insight into the book culture of this place.

Joseph McDermott is presently Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, and University Lecturer in Chinese at Cambridge University. He has published widely on Chinese social and economic history, most recently on the economy of the Song dynasty for the Cambridge History of China. He has edited State and Court Ritual in China and Art and Power in East Asia.

Verlagsort	Hong Kong
Sprache	englisch
Maße	142 x 213 mm
Gewicht	400 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Sozialgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10	962-209-782-0 / 9622097820
ISBN-13	978-962-209-782-7 / 9789622097827
Zustand	Neuware