{"title":"The Great Kanto Earthquake Ephemera Collection at Princeton University Library","authors":"Setsuko Noguchi","doi":"10.1163/22106286-12341385","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22106286-12341385","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The East Asian Library at Princeton contains a substantial collection of books, journals, photographs and ephemera related to the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923. In this article I introduce the more ephemeral items, including government notifications, posters, maps and flyers. Amongst them are flyers concerning lost children, notices about free accommodation for pregnant woman and exhortations not to believe rumors. Many of these items have now been digitalized and they constitute a valuable research collection.</p>","PeriodicalId":40266,"journal":{"name":"East Asian Publishing and Society","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140097938","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Prince, the Literati, and the Emperor: Two Faces of One Shuihu Play by Zhu Youdun","authors":"Wenbo Chang","doi":"10.1163/22106286-12341382","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22106286-12341382","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Zhu Youdun, the prince of Zhou and the grandson of the Ming founding emperor, wrote and published thirty-one <em>zaju</em> plays. While Zhu Youdun’s plays have been well-researched in drama scholarship, their publication, circulation, and textual variations emerging from transmission among different audiences are rarely studied. Situating Zhu Youdun’s <em>zaju</em> writing and publishing activities as part of Ming princely publishing, this paper examines and compares two editions of <em>Black Whirlwind Li Spurns Riches Out of Righteousness</em> as a case study, one the printed edition circulating mainly among literati audience/readers and the other the heavily adapted manuscript edition based on inner palace performance for the imperial audience.</p>","PeriodicalId":40266,"journal":{"name":"East Asian Publishing and Society","volume":"97 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140097758","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Collecting and Collectors in A Sea of Tales Past and Present","authors":"Jing Zhang","doi":"10.1163/22106286-12341383","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22106286-12341383","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Printed in 1544, <em>Gujin shuohai</em> <styled-content lang=\"zh-Hans\" xmlns:dc=\"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/\" xmlns:ifp=\"http://www.ifactory.com/press\">古今說海</styled-content> (<em>A Sea of Tales from Past and Present</em>; hereafter <em><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">GJSH</span></em>), was a distinct example of the genre of <em>congshu</em> <styled-content lang=\"zh-Hans\" xmlns:dc=\"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/\" xmlns:ifp=\"http://www.ifactory.com/press\">叢書</styled-content> (collectanea). Thirteen collators are listed, nine of whom are also noted for their contribution of texts from their own collections. They were all connected in kinship or officialdom to Lu Shen <styled-content lang=\"zh-Hans\" xmlns:dc=\"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/\" xmlns:ifp=\"http://www.ifactory.com/press\">陸深</styled-content> (<em>zi</em> Ziyuan <styled-content lang=\"zh-Hans\" xmlns:dc=\"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/\" xmlns:ifp=\"http://www.ifactory.com/press\">子淵</styled-content>; 1477–1544), a renowned official, calligrapher, poet, and bibliophile of Songjiang <styled-content lang=\"zh-Hans\" xmlns:dc=\"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/\" xmlns:ifp=\"http://www.ifactory.com/press\">松江</styled-content> (today’s Shanghai) whose family owned the Yanshan Academy <styled-content lang=\"zh-Hans\" xmlns:dc=\"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/\" xmlns:ifp=\"http://www.ifactory.com/press\">儼山書院</styled-content> that published <em><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">GJSH</span></em>. This <em>congshu</em> therefore presents an exemplary case to study how book-collecting and private publishing in early sixteenth-century Songjiang enabled its local literati community to perform their cultural authority – alternative to officialdom – in collecting and curating the narrative space of heteroglossia drawn from a miscellany of sources, social registers, and paratexts.</p>","PeriodicalId":40266,"journal":{"name":"East Asian Publishing and Society","volume":"39 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140097734","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Modernizing Sculpture: Print Culture and the New Discourse on Sculpture in China, circa 1880–1929","authors":"Keyu Yan","doi":"10.1163/22106286-12341378","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22106286-12341378","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Much of the current scholarship on the art of China in the 1910s and 1920s focuses on artworks, art academies, and art groups that were associated either with traditional Chinese painting ( guohua 國畫 ) or with oil painting (youhua 油畫 ) . By contrast, other mediums such as sculpture have rarely been discussed by scholars of modern Chinese art. Similar to guohua , the association of which with lofty literati values and imperial eras was hotly debated at the beginning of the Republic of China (1912–1949), the art of sculpture – a category that has long been considered as funerary art, craft, or decorative art – and its relevance to modern China was also discussed by artists and intellectuals at that time. In early twentieth-century China, sculpture eventually gained a new status within the fine arts. This article argues that one important factor that promoted the changing perception of sculpture in the public sphere was the blossoming print culture and its connections with photography and exhibitions in Republican China. Print materials such as newspapers, newspaper supplements, pictorial magazines, and exhibition catalogs/pamphlets promoted the process of modernizing sculpture.","PeriodicalId":40266,"journal":{"name":"East Asian Publishing and Society","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136363140","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Picturing the Confucian Sage: The Illustrated record of Master Wang Yangming and Late Ming Print Culture","authors":"Huiqiao Yao","doi":"10.1163/22106286-12341377","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22106286-12341377","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Late imperial China saw the development of print culture, in which one of the practices was combining the illustration and texts, thus visualizing the contents and changing readers’ reading experience. This paper explores an illustrated account of the famous Confucian Wang Yangming (1472–1529) entitled The Illustrated record of Master Wang Yangming ( Wang Yangming xiansheng tupu ) by Zou Shouyi (1491–1562). By tracing the earlier pictorial Confucian hagiographical tradition and the practices of book publishing, this paper examines the cult of Wang Yangming as revealed in this book along with other deifications of him at that time. I argue that such deifications in narrative texts and illustrations not only helped Wang reach a larger audience but also shifted people’s mentality of reverence by enlarging the space of worship from portraits to books. Such an analysis will enhance our understanding of the nuances of the Confucian hagiographical tradition in late imperial China.","PeriodicalId":40266,"journal":{"name":"East Asian Publishing and Society","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136363367","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Values in Numbers: Reading Japanese Literature in a Global Information Age, written by Hoyt Long","authors":"Mark Ravina","doi":"10.1163/22106286-12341380","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22106286-12341380","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40266,"journal":{"name":"East Asian Publishing and Society","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136362870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Handbook of the Colour Print in China, 1600–1800, edited by Anne Farrer and Kevin McLoughlin","authors":"J. S. Edgren","doi":"10.1163/22106286-12341379","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22106286-12341379","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40266,"journal":{"name":"East Asian Publishing and Society","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136363368","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Oriental Culture Nucleus’: The P. M. Suski Collection of Chinese Rare Books at the University of Southern California","authors":"Tang Li, Kenneth Klein","doi":"10.1163/22106286-12341371","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22106286-12341371","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Dr Peter Marie Suski was born in Japan but migrated to the United States in 1898. He practiced as a physician in southern California but had a lifelong interest in the languages of East Asia and put together a valuable collection of books, which was donated to the University of Southern California in 1962. Revealing a little-known treasure at USC , this paper traces Suski’s life and book collecting through his autobiography and correspondence, and examines the subject coverage, research value and rarity of his collection of Chinese rare books. Several rare and special editions of Chinese rare book titles are highlighted in the paper, such as a 1618 manuscript copy of Shimo Juanhua 石墨鐫華 , a 1748 palace edition of Yuanjian Leihan 淵鑑類函 , and an 1825 first impression of Zijian 字鑑 , all of which are featured in the USC Libraries online exhibit “Eastern Culture Nucleus: Chinese Rare Books in the USC Libraries ( https://scalar.usc.edu/works/chinese-rare-books/index ).”","PeriodicalId":40266,"journal":{"name":"East Asian Publishing and Society","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135838635","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Two Unpublished Letters on the Jesuit Mission Press in Late Sixteenth-Century Japan","authors":"Jaime González-Bolado","doi":"10.1163/22106286-12341370","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22106286-12341370","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This article presents a few unpublished notes, included in two different Jesuit letters, which provide new details about the Jesuit Mission Press in late sixteenth-century Japan. Information about the problems that the Jesuits faced in the internal administration of the printing press and the tools that they employed to run it can be found in these notes, which may be useful for those interested in the Jesuit Mission Press, and in general, in the history of book-production in Japan.","PeriodicalId":40266,"journal":{"name":"East Asian Publishing and Society","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47176729","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Seeing Is (Non)Believing and More: Experiencing Further Adventures on the Journey to the West in Seventeenth-Century China","authors":"Xiaoqiao Ling","doi":"10.1163/22106286-12341369","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22106286-12341369","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Further Adventures on the Journey to the West (Xiyou bu, 1641) is a quintessential literati novella that has inspired critical investigations in disciplines such as formal realism, structuralist narratology, psychological realism, stream-of-consciousness, and dream interpretation. This paper examines how the novella, in the form of a printed book, facilitated a reading experience of the text as a Buddhist allegory for readers’ self-interrogation, recognition, and alteration. Spectatorship plays a key role in readers’ experience of literature in its cognitive capacity: if Monkey as an allegory of the mind is the subject enacted by the text constantly positioned as a spectator of his own dreamscape, the subject enacted by the reader observes Monkey’s journey as a performative terrain sustained by historical and social imaginaries. In addition, illustrations function as a paratextual device that forges new image-text relationships to transcend the linear narrative, thereby altering one’s textual knowledge as part of the reading experience. By investigating the act of seeing that transpires on three levels, this study hopes to gain insight on a gnostic experience between seventeenth-century readers and the xiaoshuo narrative as literary and material artifact.","PeriodicalId":40266,"journal":{"name":"East Asian Publishing and Society","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44879615","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}