Cynthia J. Brokaw is Professor of History at Brown University.
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 of Sibao imprints that make them valuable for the study of commercial publishing, the text-production process, and the geographical and social expansion of book culture in Chinese society. In a study with important implication for cultural and economic history, Cynthia Brokaw describes rural, lower-level publishing and bookselling operation at the end of the imperial period. Commerce in Culture traces how the poverty and isolation of Sibao necessitated a bare-bones approach to publishing and bookselling and how the Hakka identity of the Sibao publishers shaped the configuration of their distribution networks and even the nature of their publication.
Sibao's industry reveals two major trends in print culture: the geographical extension of commercial woodblock publishing to hinterlands previously untouched by commercial book culture and the related social penetration of texts to lower-status levels of the population.
發表於2024-11-24
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The book consists of two parts: 1. The structure and organization of the publishing-bookselling business of Sibao. It starts with an introduction to the natural and social conditions of Sibao, followed by a brief history of Sibao book trade. It then analyz...
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評分包筠雅(Cynthia J . Brokaw)新著《文化貿易:清代至民國時期四堡的書籍交易》(以下簡稱《文化貿易》)一書,[1]是作者在長期研究閩西四堡雕版印刷齣版業的基礎上,窮十五年之功力寫成的一部厚重的研究論著。本書對清代至民國時期四堡的印刷齣版史進行瞭細緻的描述和深入的分析,是迄...
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圖書標籤: 曆史 社會史 新文化史 文化史 清史 海外中國研究 書籍史 明清史
內容很詳實,很紮實的一本書
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評分細節確實很豐富,但其實可以寫得更精略些
評分一本關於清代至民國四堡圖書業各方麵的專門研究
評分Book publishing-selling center for those at the low-level of knowledge hierarchy~
Commerce in Culture 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載