{"title":"Implications of the Many Versions of the Early Printings of Kaishien gaden, the Mustard Seed Garden Painting Manual","authors":"T. Ebrey","doi":"10.1163/22106286-12341356","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22106286-12341356","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Kaishien gaden was a widely read and influential pair of Japanese books based on the famous Chinese painting manual, Jieziyuan huazhuan. They are among the earliest examples of Japanese color printing. Close examination of many almost identical copies of Series A (1748) and Series B (1753) offers insight into the publishing practices of four different sets of publishers. Even with exemplars printed by the same publisher, there was much variation in the use of seals and color palettes, leading to many different states of each book. Assuming that each print run would be identical in not only the pages printed from the blocks, but also in the use of seals and colors, it can be estimated that there were roughly fifty to eighty print runs of each of these books over their 65–70 year initial history.","PeriodicalId":40266,"journal":{"name":"East Asian Publishing and Society","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43844542","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":"Tangut Language and Manuscripts: An Introduction, written by Shi Jinbo and translated by Li Hansong","authors":"P. Kornicki","doi":"10.1163/22106286-12341350","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22106286-12341350","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40266,"journal":{"name":"East Asian Publishing and Society","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46442049","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":"Circulating the Code: Print Media and Legal Knowledge in Qing China, written by Ting Zhang","authors":"Taisu Zhang","doi":"10.1163/22106286-12341352","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22106286-12341352","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40266,"journal":{"name":"East Asian Publishing and Society","volume":"177 1","pages":"76-77"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138531411","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":"Daily life for the common people of China, 1850 to 1950: understanding Chaoben culture, written by Ronald Suleski","authors":"Nathan Vedal","doi":"10.1163/22106286-12341336","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22106286-12341336","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40266,"journal":{"name":"East Asian Publishing and Society","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/22106286-12341336","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42129859","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 Plain History of the Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms","authors":"Robert E. Hegel","doi":"10.1163/22106286-12341332","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22106286-12341332","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Through six centuries of commercial activity, cultural identification, wartime pillage, and scholarly scrutiny, the Sanguo zhi pinghua 三國志平話 (Plain Tale on The Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms), a work of popular historical fiction, survived to be reprinted for scholarly study around 1930. But this title and others from an original 1320s series continue to exist only because of a shared dedication to the study of books and through the collaboration of generations of Chinese, Japanese, and probably Korean merchants, teachers, editors, scholars, and bibliographers. This essay traces the tortuous path followed by this thin book through time, wars, and personal passions to reveal the generosity of scholars in making this title and its historical significance known today. As with cultural matters at other times and places, this path was regularly overshadowed by political and commercial interests.","PeriodicalId":40266,"journal":{"name":"East Asian Publishing and Society","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/22106286-12341332","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46414007","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":"Recasting the past: an early modern Tales of Ise for children, written by Laura Moretti","authors":"Tara M. McGowan","doi":"10.1163/22106286-12341337","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22106286-12341337","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40266,"journal":{"name":"East Asian Publishing and Society","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/22106286-12341337","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41901379","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 Peking Gazette: A Reader in Nineteenth-Century Chinese History, written by Lane J. Harris","authors":"Emily Mokros","doi":"10.1163/22106286-12341335","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22106286-12341335","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40266,"journal":{"name":"East Asian Publishing and Society","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/22106286-12341335","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42004626","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":"Archaistic Perfection: the Production of the Woodblock-Printed Edition of The Communist Manifesto in 1970s China","authors":"L. Y. Yang","doi":"10.1163/22106286-12341334","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22106286-12341334","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Woodblock book printing was for many centuries the dominant printing technology in East Asia but it was replaced by mechanised presses during the early 20th century. Surprisingly, in 1973, at the request of the Shanghai municipal government, the Cloudy Studio, a local publishing house, published a fine woodblock edition of The Communist Manifesto in classical Chinese style. Apart from the historical decline of xylography, this was also politically remarkable given that the CCP publicly derided elite xylographic book publishing. In this paper, by investigating the production process of The Manifesto, I will argue that archaism in elite literati book culture continued in woodblock book publishing during the Mao era of 1949-1976. I will analyse how the publishers sought archaistic perfection through design concepts, literati printing materials, ceremonialised production processes and a master-pupil system in the Communist publishing industry through the woodblock printing practice.","PeriodicalId":40266,"journal":{"name":"East Asian Publishing and Society","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/22106286-12341334","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42238724","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":"Chinese Fiction as a ‘Signal Bell of the Revolution’ and the Transregional Birth of an Author","authors":"W. Hedberg","doi":"10.1163/22106286-12341333","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22106286-12341333","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This essay examines late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century interest in Shi Nai’an, the putative author of the traditional Chinese novel, The Water Margin. Despite the paucity of reliable evidence attesting to Shi Nai’an’s composition of The Water Margin, Japanese writers of the Meiji period were keenly interested in Shi on the basis of his alleged stature as a pioneering author of Oriental or East Asian (Tōyō) fiction. This characterization of Shi Nai’an was a byproduct of the recently established academic discipline of literary history in Japan, and the concomitant desire by Meiji-period historians to locate a literary text that could compete with Western works in terms of narrative and structural complexity. When late Qing-period Chinese authors became aware of Japanese writing on Shi Nai’an, they built on this budding biographical tradition by emphasizing Shi’s identification with an incipient Chinese nationalism, evidenced by his alleged resistance to the Mongol regime during the Yuan dynasty. The case study of Shi Nai’an thus illustrates the nexus between the construction of authorial personae and the pursuit of various ideological goals, as well as demonstrates the centrality of transregional literary contact in the formation of emergent concepts of authorship and canonization in modern East Asia.","PeriodicalId":40266,"journal":{"name":"East Asian Publishing and Society","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/22106286-12341333","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45911748","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":"Huang Pilie and the Rituals of Book Collecting during an Age of Prosperity","authors":"D. Campbell","doi":"10.1163/22106286-12341328","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22106286-12341328","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Apart from a number of brief visits to the capital required of him by his (unsuccessful) participation in the civil service examinations, the Suzhou bibliophile Huang Pilie 黃丕烈 (1765-1825) journeyed almost nowhere. Instead, books made their way to him, in great numbers. Huang devoted more than thirty years of his life to the acquisition, copying, and collating of ancient editions. He was one of the most important book collectors of what has been regarded as the golden age of private book collecting in China, the half-century covering the late years of the reign of the Qianlong emperor (1711-1799; r. 1736-1795) and the entire reign of the Jiaqing emperor (1760-1820; r. 1796-1820), an ‘Age of Prosperity’ (shengshi 盛世). For almost a decade between 1801 and 1811, this library owner, editor, bibliographer, publisher, and, in his final year, (again, somewhat unsuccessfully) bookseller, who styled himself as the Master besotted with imprints of the Song dynasty (Ning Song zhuren 佞宋主人) and was the owner of the famous Hundred Song Imprints in a Single Shed (Bai Song yichan 百宋一廛), also conducted a book ritual (ji shu 祭書) of his own devising whereby, every New Year’s Eve, he would lay out before a select number of guests his best acquisitions of the preceding year and undertake rituals more usually associated with ancestor worship. My paper discusses aspects of Huang Pilie’s life and work as a book collector with reference particularly to the 800 or so extant colophons he wrote for books either in his own collection or in those of his acquaintances.","PeriodicalId":40266,"journal":{"name":"East Asian Publishing and Society","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/22106286-12341328","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43878769","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}