Kai-Wing Chow

Broschiertes Buch

Publishing, Culture, and Power in Early Modern China

Beschreibung

This book is a path-breaking study of print culture in early modern China. It argues that printing with both woodblocks and movable type exerted a profound influence on Chinese society in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The book examines the rise and impact of print culture from both economic and cultural perspectives. >

Autor

Kai-wing Chow is Associate Professor of History and East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. He is the author of The Rise of Confucian Ritualism in Late Imperial China (Stanford, 1997).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 153mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 553g
• ISBN-13: 9780804733687
• ISBN-10: 0804733686
• Artikelnr.: 22774173