"Within the past two decades, the history of print and book culture in late imperial China has engaged the interest and efforts of scholars throughout the world....Kai-wing Chow's book, a thought-provoking addition to this literature, analyzes the social, cultural, and political impact of commercial and private publishing of examination literature in the late Ming."--Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies"
"[This] monograph is very well researched and makes a valuable contribution to the historiography of early modern China as well as the history of publishing."--Sixteenth Century Journal

• ISBN: 0804733686
• ISBN-13: 9780804733687
• Author : Kai-Wing Chow
• Language : English
• Format:  Paperback - Search for other formats
• Publication Date: 1/11/2007
• Publisher Imprint: Stanford University Press
• Price ($AUD): $27.30


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