Home and the World

Yuming He is Assistant Professor of Chinese Literature at the University of Chicago.

出版者:Harvard University Asia Center

作者:Yuming He

页数:360

出版时间:2013-6-3

价格:USD 39.95

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780674066809

丛书系列:Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series

图书标签:艺术史明清史书籍史文化史明史海外中国研究历史艺术

China's sixteenth and seventeenth centuries saw an unprecedented explosion in the production and circulation of woodblock-printed books. What can surviving traces of that era's print culture reveal about the makers and consumers of these books? Home and the World addresses this question by carefully examining a wide range of late Ming books, considering them not merely as texts, but as material objects and economic commodities designed, produced, and marketed to stand out in the distinctive book marketplace of the time, and promising high enjoyment and usefulness to readers. Although many of the mass-market commercial imprints studied here might have struck scholars from the eighteenth century on as too trivial, lowbrow, or slipshod to merit serious study, they prove to be an invaluable resource, providing insight into their readers' orientations toward the increasingly complex global stage of early modernity and toward traditional Chinese conceptions of textual, political, and moral authority. On a more intimate scale, they tell us about readers' ideals of a fashionable and pleasurable private life. Through studying these works, we come closer to recapturing the trend-conscious, sophisticated, and often subversive ways readers at this important moment in China's history imagined their world and their place within it.

用户评价

Brilliant！Especially the fourth chapter of Luochong Lu is quite enlightening！

太喜欢了！！！！

文本分析的功夫确实了得（貌似是中文系出身？），不过研究方法基本还是沿袭罗伯特·达恩顿还有罗杰·夏蒂埃总结的那一套

似乎挺有趣的。。。。。

Brilliant！Especially the fourth chapter of Luochong Lu is quite enlightening！