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2025-01-24
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與一般人設想的不同,帝製晚期的舊中國可能的確“貧窮落後”,但未必“愚昧”——如果“愚昧”主要是指受教育程度很低的話。根據美國學者羅友枝的研究,在19世紀的中國,35-45%的成年男子和約2-10%的女子都具備基本識字(兩韆個漢字)能力,這個水平在全世界而言都是不低的。不...
評分 評分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...
評分圖書標籤: 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
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評分主要看瞭part1最後一章和partII。關於literacy的討論很到位,是不錯的文獻綜述。
評分Book publishing-selling center for those at the low-level of knowledge hierarchy~
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評分清朝閩西四堡鄉的印書賣書人。印刷的擴張讓更多人接觸到書瞭,但在教育製度不改革的前提下,這並沒能打開大眾通過科舉走嚮精英階層的通途。第一部分講發展史,第二部分講印的書籍的內容和銷路;第二部分有趣(神話、算命、金瓶梅什麼的),以後有空瞭再細讀讀。
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