Commercial Publishing in Late Imperial China: The Zou and Ma Family Businesses of Sibao, Fujian

Revisiting the Civil Examinations in the Qing Dynasty: Popularization and Social Transitions

“…The thriv ing pub lish ing indus try in the Qing dynasty can be seen as another "unintended" by-prod uct of the pop u lar ized civil exams. Previous stud ies pointed out that the devel op ment of com mer cial print ing in the late Ming and early Qing cre ated a vast sup ply-demand rela tion ship and redirected a large num ber of lite rati from solely enroll ing in exams to work ing as pro fes sional writ ers who actively engaged in the print ing busi ness and helped read ers suc ceed at exams (Chow 1996(Chow , 2004.…”

The Construction of the Medical Writer’s Authority and Legitimacy in Late Imperial China through Authorial and Allographic Prefaces

“…His book has given birth to a large amount of other works on titles, prefaces, notes and the like, which have been helpful for analysing the prefatory material attached to the Chinese medical treatises discussed here. A systematic investigation remains to be done on book covers, titles, tables of content and illustrations which played an important role for attracting a potential audience in a context where commercial printing was booming (Brokaw et al 2005, Brokaw 1996, Chia 1996. However, we have limited ourselves to the prefaces to highlight what sort of rhetorical strategy was displayed by the author, his peers and the editor to show what a good medical author and a good book should be.…”

Blood, Tigers, Dragons: The Physiology of Transcendence for Women

“…On Sichuan spirit-writing cults, see Takeuchi Fusashi 1996. 7 For the publishing boom in Late Imperial China, see Kai Wing Chow 2004 andBrokaw 1996. For information on private publishers and owners of private libraries, see Swann 1936.…”