Commerce in Culture: The Sibao Book Trade in the Qing and Republican Periods

by Cynthia J. Brokaw

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674024494
• ISBN13: 9780674024496
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 673 Pages
• Weight: 2.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 6.5" x 9.2"