''Printing and Book Culture in Late Imperial China'' is a 2005 book edited by Cynthia J. Brokaw and Kai-wing Chow, published by

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There are 11 essays in the book.Dzanko, p. 120. The book starts with two essays, one by Cynthia J. Brokaw and Joseph McDermott. The former examines how the book publishing cultures differ between China and Western countries and her advocacy for studying things in the

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style, while McDermott's essay, "The Ascendance of Imprint in China," explores how printing developed in the

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.Kornicki, p. 377. Lucille Chia's essay on the

-era Three Mountain Street in Nanjing, Anne E. McLaren's essay on different reading texts for different groups of people, and Brokaw's essay on Qing dynasty-era publishing in more distant areas of China were three essays focusing on the commercial printing industry.Dzanko, p. 121. Additionally, Robert E. Hegel's essay describes fiction publishing, Katherine Carlitz's essay describes Ming dynasty-era writers of plays, Evelyn S. Rawski's article describes publishing of works not written in Chinese languages during the Qing dynasty, and Xu Xiaomen's article describes geneological documents in the Qing era and in the

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. Rawski's article includes information on works in the

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, and

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languages. It does not include information on works in Uighur. Anne Burkus-Chasson's article describes ''Lingyan ge'' (劉源敬繪凌煙閣) by Liu Yuan (劉源). Book illustrations meant to teach lessons are described in Julia K. Murray's essay.Dzanko, p. 122.

Reception

Michael Dzanko of

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stated that the book is "striking". Dennis Joseph, author of ''Writing, Publishing, and Reading Local Gazetteers in Imperial China, 1100–1700'', described the book as "important". Peter F. Kornicki of the

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stated that the first essay by Brokaw is "masterly".

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