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 infl

This path-breaking book argues that printing—both with woodblocks and with movable type—exerted a profound influence on Chinese society in the sixteenth and

Despite the importance of books and the written word in Chinese society, the history of the book in China is a topic that has been little explored. This pioneer

Amid early twentieth-century China’s epochal shifts, a vital and prolific commercial publishing industry emerged. Recruiting late Qing literati, foreign-train

Pictures and Visuality in Early Modern China is not simply a survey of sixteenth-century images, but rather, a thorough and thoughtful examination of visual cul