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The Book Worlds of East Asia and Europe, 1450-1850: Connections and Comparisons

Joseph P. McDermott and Peter Burke

Print publication date: 2015

Print ISBN-13: 9789888208081

Published to Hong Kong Scholarship Online: May 2016

DOI: 10.5790/hongkong/9789888208081.001.0001

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“Noncommercial” Private Publishing in Late Imperial China

“Noncommercial” Private Publishing in Late Imperial China

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(p.105) 3 “Noncommercial” Private Publishing in Late Imperial China
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The Book Worlds of East Asia and Europe, 1450-1850
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Joseph McDermott

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Hong Kong University Press
DOI:10.5790/hongkong/9789888208081.003.0003

McDermott identifies a distinctive feature of Chinese and Japanese book production, private non-commercial publishing, and shows how its popularity in East Asia complicates efforts to transfer to its book history the conventional Western historical narratives that identify the rise of printing with the rise of capitalism and the linkage of market expansion with the public expression of private opinion on public matters.

Keywords:   Europe, Asia, Eurasia, Book history, Book culture, Book Printing, Technology, Publishing, Book distribution, Book consumption

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