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The Book worlds of east Asia and Europe, 1450-1850: connections and comparisons

edited by Joseph P. Mcdermott and Peter Burke
Resource Type:
E-Book
Publication:
Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, [2015]
Copyright:
©2015
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Summary:
This volume provides the first comparative survey of the relations between the two most active book worlds in Eurasia between 1450 and 1850. Prominent scholars in book history explore different approaches to publishing, printing, and book culture. They discuss the extent of technology transfer and book distribution between the two regions and show how much book historians of East Asia and Europe can learn from one another by raising new questions, exploring remarkable similarities and differences in these regions' production, distribution, and consumption of books. The chapters in turn show different ways of writing transnational comparative history. Whereas recent problems confronting research on European books can instruct researchers on East Asian book production, so can the privileged role of noncommercial publications in the East Asian textual record highlight for historians of the European book the singular contribution of commercial printing and market demands to the making of the European printed record. Likewise, although production growth was accompanied in both regions by a wider distribution of books, woodblock technology's simplicity and mobility allowed for a shift in China of its production and distribution sites farther down the hierarchy of urban sites than was common in Europe. And, the different demands and consumption practices within these two regions' expanding markets led to different genre preferences and uses as well as to the growth of distinctive female readerships. A substantial introduction pulls the work together and the volume ends with an essay that considers how these historical developments shape the present book worlds of Eurasia.
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction / Peter Burke
  • 2. Bibliography, Population, and Statistics: A View from the West / David McKitterick
  • 3. "Noncommercial" Private Publishing in Late Imperial China / Joseph McDermott
  • 4. Distribution: The Transmission of Books in Europe and Its Colonies: Contours, Cautions, and Global Comparisons / James Raven
  • 5. Empire of Texts: Book Production, Book Distribution, and Book Culture in Late Imperial China / Cynthia Brokaw
  • 6. Proliferation of Reference Books, 1450
  • 1850 / Joseph McDermott
  • 7. Books for Women and Women Readers / Peter Kornicki
  • 8. Epilogue / Peter Burke.
Contributors:
Burke, Peter, 1937- , editor
McDermott, Joseph Peter , editor
Languages:
English
Language Notes:
Item content: English
Subjects:
Publishers and publishing — East Asia — History
Publishers and publishing — Europe — History
Printing — East Asia — History
Printing — Europe — History
Book industries and trade — East Asia — History
Book industries and trade — Europe — History
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on print version record.
Physical Description:
1 online resource.
Call Numbers:
Z448 .B66 2015
ISBNs:
9789888313617 (electronic bk.)
9888313614 (electronic bk.)
9789888208081 [Invalid]
988820808X [Invalid]
OCLC Numbers:
925499886
Other Control Numbers:
1055446 (source: EbpS)
[Unknown Type]: ybp12651104