Printing for Profit: The Commercial Publishers of Jianyang, Fujian (11th-17th Centuries)

by Lucille Chia

From the eleventh through the seventeenth centuries, the publishers of Jianyang in Fujian province played a conspicuous role in the Chinese book trade. Unlike the products of government and educational presses, their publications were destined for the retail book market. These publishers survived by responding to consumer demands for dictionaries, histories, geographies, medical texts, encyclopedias, primers, how-to books, novels, and anthologies...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067400955X
• ISBN13: 9780674009554
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 1.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.2" x 9.4"