H-145. The Book in Ming China: History & Analysis - Advance Reading List

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  • Preliminary Advices

    Revised 3/5/24

    * = PDF available

    *Heijdra, Martin. “The East Asian Library and the Gest Collection at Princeton University,” in: Peter X. Zhou, ed., Collecting Asia: East Asian Libraries in North America, 1868-2008 (Ann Arbor: Association for Asian Studies, 2010, pp. 120-135. USE UPDATED VERSION OF 2018 (PROVIDED).

    *Mote, Frederick and Hung-lam Chu. Calligraphy and the East Asian Book. Boston: Shambhala Publications, 1989. NK3634.A2 M67 1989. Same as The Gest Library Journal II:2 (1988).

    Pulinsidun daxue tushuguan cang Zhongwen shanben shumu 普林斯頓大學圖書館藏中文善本書目, 北京市 : 國家圖書館出版社, 2017, 2 volumes. Cf. http://gest.princeton.edu/rarebook.htm (click on “subject”).

  • Required Reading

    *Brokaw, Cynthia. “On the History of the Book in China,” In: Cynthia Brokaw and Kai-Wing Chow, eds., Printing and Book Culture in Late Imperial China, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005, pp. 3–54.

    *Dai, Lianbin. “China’s Bibliographic Tradition and the History of the Book,” Book History 17 (2014), 1–50.

    Edgren, Sören, ed. Chinese Rare Books in American Collections. New York: China Institute, 1984.

    *pp. 10–15 (Introduction by Sören Edgren)

    *pp. 16–25 (“Technical Aspects of Chinese Printing” by Tsuen-Hsuin Tsien)

    *pp. 26–30 (“Chinese Type Design and Calligraphy” by Wan-Go Weng)

    *pp. 31–43 (“Book Illustration in Late Ming and Early Qing China” by Wang Fang-yu)

    *pp. 88–125 (Ming-Qing printing by Sören Edgren).

    *Edgren, Sören. “The Traditional Chinese Book: Form & Function.” Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum, 1995 (catalogue brochure).

    *Edgren, J. S. “The History of the Book in China,” in: Michael F. Suarez, S.J. and H. R. Woudhuysen eds., The Oxford Companion to the Book, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010, pp. 353–65.

    *Heijdra, Martin, “Cataloging Chinese Rare Books at Princeton,” Princeton University Library Chronicle, 78:1 (Autumn–Winter 2020), pp. 56-70 (Download from: https://www.jstor.org/stable/48693091?seq=1)

    *Heijdra, Martin, “Technology, Culture, and Economics: Movable Type Versus Woodblock Printing in East Asia,” in: Isobe Akira 磯部彰, ed., Higashi Ajia Shuppan Bunka Kenkyū: Niwatazumi 東アジア出版文化研究. にわたずみ, 東京 : 二玄社, 2004, pp. 223-240.

    *(forthcoming), Heijdra, Martin and Ling Yiming, “Muluxue,” in: Glenn W. Most, Martin Kern and Anne Eusterschulte eds., Philological practices: a comparative historical lexicon, Princeton: Princeton University Press [extended version].

    *Kornicki, P. F. “The History of the Book in Japan,” in: Michael F. Suarez, S.J. and H. R. Woudhuysen eds., The Oxford Companion to the Book, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010, pp. 375–85.

    *McKillop, Beth. “The History of the Book in Korea,” in: Michael F. Suarez, S.J. and H. R. Woudhuysen eds., The Oxford Companion to the Book, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010, pp. 366–73.

    *McDermott, Joseph. A Social History of the Chinese Book. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2006, pp. 43-81.

    *Xiao, Dongfa, ed. From Oracle Bones to E-Publications. Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 2009, pp.15–97.

  • Recommended Reading

    Brokaw, Cynthia. “Book History in Premodern China: The State of the Discipline I.” Book History, vol. 10 (2007), 253-290 (Download from http://www.jstor.org/stable/30227406).

    *Darnton, Robert. “What is the History of Books?” Daedalus 111, no. 3 (1982): 65–83. Also published in Darnton’s The Kiss of Lamourette. New York: W. W. Norton, 1995, pp. 107–135.

    *Edgren, J. S. “Late-Ming Erotic Book Illustrations and the Origins of Ukiyo-e Prints.” Arts Asiatiques, 66 (2011), 117-134.

    *Heijdra, Martin, “I. V. Gillis, Cataloger of the Mu and Gest Collections”, in: Qiao Xiaoqin 喬曉勤 (Stephen Qiao) (ed.), Jianada Duolunduo Daxue Mushi Cangshumu 加拿大多伦多大学慕氏藏书目 [Catalog of the Mu Collection in the Toronto University, Canada], 北京市 : 國家圖書館出版社, 2022, v. 1, pp. 1-9.

    McDermott, Joseph and Peter Burke (ed.). The Book Worlds of East Asia and Europe, 1450- 1850, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2015.

    Meyer-Fong, Tobie. “The Printed World: Books, Publishing Culture, and Society in Late Imperial China,” Journal of Asian Studies 66:3 (2007), 787-817 (Download from https://www.jstor.org/stable/20203205).

    *Munn, Jesse. “Side-stitched books of China, Korea and Japan in Western Collections,” Journal of the Institute of Conservation 32, no. 1 (2009), pp. 103–27.

    *Tsien, Tsuen-Hsuin. “Paper and Printing.” Joseph Needham, Science and Civilisation in China, vol. 5, pt. 1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985 (Third printing, revised 1987, and later printings), pp. 23-84; 194-291.

  • Additional Reading

    Beijing yishu bowuguan cang Mingdai Dazangjing sichou biaofeng yanjiu 北京艺术博物馆藏明代大藏经丝绸裱封研究 , Beijing: Xueyuan chubanshe, 2013.

    Brokaw, Cynthia. Commerce in Culture, Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2007.

    Bussotti, Michela ed., “Dossier ‘Livres des gens de Hui,’”  (Michela Bussotti, “Introduction” (Download from https://www.jstor.org/stable/43733748); Jean-Pierre Drège, “De Dunhuang à Huizhou: notes brèves sur la géographie des premiers temps du livre imprimé en Chine” (Download from https://www.jstor.org/stable/43733749); Michela Bussotti, “Compiler, éditer, illustrer: les monographies du district de Xiuning” (Download from https://www.jstor.org/stable/43733750); Lin Li-chiang, “Wang Tingne Unveiled through the Study of the Late Ming Woodblock-Printed Book Renjing Yangqiu” (Download from https://www.jstor.org/stable/43733751); Lucille Chia, “Huizhou Natives and the Publishing World of Late Ming China” (Download from https://www.jstor.org/stable/43733752); Pierre-Henri Durand, “Zhang Chao et les Ombres de Rêves ou les amitiés d’un éditeur au temps de l’empereur Kangxi,” (Download from https://www.jstor.org/stable/43733753), Bulletin de l’École française d’Extrême-Orient 95-96 (2008-2009), 2012.

    Bussotti, Michela, Gravures de Hui : Étude du livre illustré chinois (fin du XVIe siècle-première moitié du XVIIe siècle), Paris : École française d’extrême-Orient, 2001.

    Ce fu qian hua: zhengui guji diaoban tezhan tulu 册府千华 : 珍贵古籍雕版特展图录 , 北京 : 国家图书馆出版社, 2015.

    Chen Duo 陈铎, Jianben yu Jian’an banhua 建本与建安版画, [福州市] : 福建美术出版社, 2006.

    Chen Hongyan 陈红彦, Zhang Ping 张平, eds., Zhongguo guji zhuangju 中国古籍装具, 北京: 国家图书馆出版社, 2012.

    Chen Zhenghong 陈正宏, Dong Ya Hanji banbenxue chutan 东亚汉籍版本学初探 , 上海市 : 中西書局, 2014.

    Chen Zhenghong 陈正宏, Liang Ying 梁颖, Guji yinben jianding gaishuo 古籍印本鉴定概说 , 上海 : 上海辞书出版社, 2005.

    Cheng Huanwen 程焕文, Zhongguo tushu wenhua daolun 中国图书文化导论, 广州中山大学出版社, 1995.

    Chia, Lucille and Hilde de Weerdt, eds. Knowledge and Text Production in an Age of Print: China, 900-1400, Leiden: Brill, 2011.

    Chia, Lucille, “Of Three Mountains Street: The Commercial Publishers of Ming Nanjing,” in: Cynthia Brokaw and Kai-Wing Chow, eds., Printing and Book Culture in Late Imperial China, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005, pp. 107-151 (Download from https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1ppz91.8).

    Chia, Lucille, “The life and afterlife of Qisha Canon,” in: Jiang Wu and Lucille Chia eds., Spreading Buddha’s word in East Asia: the formation and transformation of the Chinese Buddhist canon, New York : Columbia University Press, [2016] , pp. 181-218, (Download from https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/wu–17160.12).

    Chia, Lucille. Printing for Profit, Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2002.

    Chow, Kai-wing, Publishing, Culture, and Power in Early Modern China, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004.

    Cui Jianli 崔建利, Minguo shiqi de guji congshu yanjiu 民国时期的古籍丛书研究, 北京 : 中國社会科学出版社, 2016.

    Dai, Lianbin, “The Economics of the Jiaxing Edition of the Buddhist Tripitaka,” T’oung Pao, Second Series, Vol. 94, Fasc. 4/5 (2008), pp. 306-359, (Download from https://brill.com/view/journals/tpao/94/4/article-p306_2.xml).

    Dennis, Joseph R., Writing, Publishing, and Reading Local Gazetteers in Imperial China, 1100-1700, Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed By Harvard University Press, 2015.

    Drège, Jean-Pierre. Le papier dans la Chine impériale. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1971.

    Du Weisheng 杜伟生, Zhongguo guji xiufu yu zhuangzheng jishu tujie 中国古籍修复与装帧技术图解, 北京图书馆出版社, 2003.

    *Edgren, J. S. “Review of Zhongguo guji zhuangju (Traditional Chinese book enclosures).” East Asian Publishing and Society 5 (2015), 129-134.

    *Edgren, Sören. “Southern Song Printing at Hangzhou,” Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, No. 61 (1989), pp. 1-212.

    *Edgren, Sören, “The fengmianye (cover page) as a source for Chinese publishing history,” in: Isobe Akira 磯部彰, ed., Higashi Ajia Shuppan Bunka Kenkyū: Niwatazumi 東アジア出版文化研究. にわたずみ, 東京 : 二玄社, 2004, pp. 261-267.

    Farrer, Anne et al., Handbook of the Colour Print in China 1600-1800, Leiden: Brill, 2021.

    *Fitzgerald, Devin, “Spreading Without Being Seen: Towards a Global History of Early Modern Chinese Papers,” Ars Orientalis 51, 2022, pp. 105-132.

    Gugong bowuyuan 故宮博物院, Sheng shi wen zhi : Qinggong dianji wenhua 盛世文治 : 清宮典籍文化, 北京紫禁城出版社, 2005.

    Guo Lixuan 郭立暄, Zhongguo guji yuanke fanke yu chuyin houyin yanjiu 中國古籍原刻翻刻與初印後印研究 , 上海市 : 中西書局, 2015, 3 volumes.

    He, Yuming. Home and the World, Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2013.

    *Heijdra, Martin “A Tale of Two Aesthetics: Typography versus Calligraphy in the Pre-modern Chinese Book,” in: Ming Wilson and Stacey Pierson ed., The Art of the Book in China (Colloquies on Art & Archaeology in Asia No. 23), London: University of London, Percival David Foundation Of Chinese Art, School of Oriental and African Studies, 2006, pp. 15-27.

    *Heijdra, Martin, “Book review of Christopher A. Reed, Gutenberg in Shanghai: Chinese Print Capitalism, 1876-1937,” SHARP News (Society for the history of authorship, reading and publishing) 15:2-3 (Spring-Summer 2006), p. 22-23.

    *Heijdra, Martin, “Book review of Joseph R. Dennis, Writing, Publishing, and Reading Local Gazetteers in Imperial China, 1100-1700,” Zhongguo wenhua yanjiusuo xuebao 63 (July 2016), pp. 287-298.

    *Heijdra, Martin, “Book review of Lucille Chia and Hilde De Weerdt, eds, Knowledge and text production in an age of print: China, 900-1400, Journal of Asian Studies 71:4 (November 2012), pp. 1099-1101.

    *Heijdra, Martin, “Book review of Timothy Brook, Geographical Sources of Ming-Qing History,” Ming Studies, 29 (1990), pp. 65-69.

    *Heijdra, Martin, “Book review of Yuming He, Home and the World: Editing the ‘Glorious Ming’ in Woodblock-Printed Books of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries,” Zhongguo wenhua yanjiusuo xuebao 59 (July 2014), pp. 303-311.

    *Heijdra, Martin, “The Development of Modern Typography in East Asia, 1850–2000,” East Asian Library Journal XI:2 (2004), pp. 100-168.

    *Heijdra, Martin, “Typography and the East Asian Book: The Evolution of the Grid,” in: Perry Link, ed., The Scholar’s Mind: Essays in Honor of Frederick W. Mote, Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2009, pp. 115-145.

    *Heijdra, Martin, and Cao Shuwen, “The World’s Earliest Extant Book Printed from Wooden Movable Type? Chüan Seventy-seven of the Tangut Translation of the Garland Sutra,” Gest Library Journal 5:1 (1992), pp. 70-89.

    *Helliwell, David. “Repair and Binding of Old Chinese Books,” East Asian Library Journal, VIII:1 (1998), 27-149.

    Inoue Susumu 井上進, Chūgoku shuppan bunkashi: shomotsu sekai to chi no fūkei 中国出版文化史 : 書物世界と知の風景 , 名古屋 : 名古屋大学出版会, 2002.

    Kerlouégan, Jérôme, “Printing for Prestige? Publishing and Publications by Ming Princes,” East Asian Publishing and Society 1(2011), pp. 39-73, 105-44, and 2(2012), pp. 39-73 (Download from https://brill.com/view/journals/eaps/1/1/article-p39_2.xml), 105-44 (Download from https://brill.com/view/journals/eaps/1/2/article-p105_1.xml), and 2 (2012), pp. 3-75 (Download from https://brill.com/view/journals/eaps/2/1/article-p3_2.xml), 109-98 (Download from https://brill.com/view/journals/eaps/2/2/article-p109_1.xml).

    Ki Shōshun 祁小春, Chūgoku koseki no hankoku shohō 中国古籍の板刻書法 , 大阪市 : 東方出版, 1998.

    Li Kaisheng 李開升, Mingdai Jiajing keben yanjiu 明嘉靖刻本研究 , 上海 : 中西書局, 2019.

    Long, Darui, “Managing the Dharma Treasure: collation, carving, printing, and distribution of the Canon in late imperial China,” in: Jiang Wu and Lucille Chia eds., Spreading Buddha’s word in East Asia: the formation and transformation of the Chinese Buddhist canon, New York: Columbia University Press, [2016], New York : Columbia University Press, [2016] , pp. 219-246 (Download from https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/wu–17160.13).

    McLaren, Anne, “Constructing New Reading Publics in Late Ming China.” in: Cynthia Brokaw and Kai-Wing Chow, eds., Printing and Book Culture in Late Imperial China, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005, pp. 152-183 (Download from https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1ppz91.9).

    Ōki Yasushi 大木康, Minmatsu Kōnan no shuppan bunka 明末江南の出版文化, 東京 : 研文出版, 2004.

    Ōki Yasushi 大木康, Chūgoku Minmatsu no media kakumei : shomin ga hon o yomu 中国明末のメディア革命 : 庶民が本を読む, 東京 : 刀水書房, 2009.

    Pan Jixing 潘吉星, Zhongguo kexue jishushi: zaozhi yu yinshua juan 中国科学技术史：造纸与印刷卷,北京科学出版社, 1998.

    Park, J. P, Art by the Book, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2012.

    Qian Yongxing 钱永兴, Minjian riyong diaoban yinshuapin tuzhi 民间日用雕版印刷品图志 , 扬州市 : 广陵书社, 2010.

    Reed, Christopher, Gutenberg in Shanghai: Chinese Print Capitalism, 1876-1937, Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2004.

    Shaw, Shiow-Jyu Lu, The Imperial Printing of Early Qing China, 1644-1805, Taibei: Chinese Materials Center, 1983.

    Shi Zongyuan 石宗源, Liu Binjie 柳斌杰 Zhongguo chuban tongshi 中国出版通史, 北京市 : 中国书籍出版社, 2008, 9 v.

    *Shum Chum 沈津, “Mingdai fangke tushu zhi liutong yu jiage 明代坊刻圖書之流通與價格,” Guojia tushuguan guankan 國家圖書館舘刊 1996:1, pp. 101-118.

    Son, Suyoung, Writing for print: publishing and the making of textual authority in late imperial China, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Asia Center, 2018.

    *Standaert, Nicolas, “Ritual Dances and Their Visual Representations in the Ming and the Qing,” East Asian Library Journal 12:1 (Spring 2006), pp. 68-181.

    *Swann, Nancy Lee, “Seven Intimate Library Owners,” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 1:3-4 (1936), pp. 363-390.

    *Tomasko, Nancy, “Chinese Handmade Paper,” Hand Papermaking 19:1 (Summer 2004), 20-32.

    Tsien, Tsuen-Hsuin, Written on Bamboo and Silk. 2nd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Read pp. 1–206.

    Twitchett, Denis, Printing and Publishing in Medieval China. London: Wynkyn de Worde Society; New York: Frederic Beil, 1983.

    *Volkmar, Barbara, “The Physician and the Plagiarist: The Fate of the Legacy of Wan Quan,” East Asian Library Journal 9:1 (Spring 2000), 1-77.

    Wang, Rongguo 王榮國 et al., Mingdai Min Ling ke taoyinben tulu 明代閔淩刻套印本圖錄, 揚州廣陵書社, 2006.

    *Wu, K. T., “Ming printing and printers,” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 7:3 (1943), pp. 203-260.

    Xu, Yuanting 許媛婷 ed., Guren zhangzhongshu 古人掌中書 : 院藏巾箱本特展 = Books in the palm of your hand: the kerchief-box editions in the National Palace Museum collection, 臺北市 : 國立故宮博物院, [2019].

    Yang, Yuanzheng, Chinese Music in Print: From the Great Sage to the Lady Literata, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2023.

    Yin, Yijun 尹伊君, Gu zhi yi lü : Yin cang Qingdai falü wenshu 故紙遺律 : 尹藏清代法律文书 , 北京市 : 北京大学出版社, 2013.

    Yoneyama, Toratarō 米山寅太郎, Zusetsu Chūgoku insatsushi 図說中国印刷史, 東京 : 汲古書院, 2005.

    Zhang, Ting, Circulating the code: print media and legal knowledge in Qing China, Seattle: University of Washington Press, [2020].

    Zhang, Xiumin 张秀民, Han Qi 韩琦, Zhongguo huozi yinshuashi 中国活字印刷史, 北京中国书籍出版社, 1998.

    Zhang, Xiumin, The History of Chinese Printing. Paramus (N.J.): Homa & Sekey Books, 2009.

    Zhang, Xiumin 张秀民, Han Qi 韩琦, Zhongguo yinshuashi 中国印刷史（插图珍藏增订版）杭州浙江古籍出版社, 2006. Rev. ed.

    Zhongguo banben wenhua congshu 中國版本文化叢書 (14 vols., Zhao Qian 赵前, Ming ben 明本 ; 韦力 Wei Li, Pijiao ben 批校本; Huang Runhua 黄润华, Shaoshu minzu guji banben 少数民族古籍版本; Jiang Deming姜德明, Xin wenxue banben 新文学版本; Huang Zhenwei 黄镇伟, Fangke ben 坊刻本; Li Jining李际宁, Fojing banben 佛经版本; Jiang Qingbo 江庆柏, Gao ben 稿本; Xi Chunnian奚椿年, Zhongguo shu yuanliu 中国书源流; Huang Shang 黄裳, Qing keben 清刻本; Xue Bing 薛冰, Chatu ben 插图本; Xu Yinong 徐忆农, Huozi ben 活字本; Cheng Youqing 程有庆、Zhang Lijuan 张丽娟, Song ben 宋本; Chen Hongyan 陈红彦, Yuan ben 元本; Wang Guiping 王桂平, Jiake ben 家刻本), 南京市 : 江苏古籍出版社, 2002.

    *Zhou Qirong 周启荣, “Ming-Qing yinshua shuji chengben, jiage ji qi shangpin jazhi de yanjiu 明清印刷书籍成本 、价格及其商品价值的研究,” Zhejiang daxue xuebao (Renwen shehui kexueban) 浙江大学学报(人文社会科学版) 40:1 (2010), pp. 5-17.

     

  • References

    Chen Xianxing, et al., 陳先行等編, Zhongguo guji gao chao jiao ben tulu 中國古籍稿鈔校本圖錄, 上海: 上海書店出版社, 2000. 3 vols.

    Du Xinfu 杜信孚, ed., Mingdai banke zongmu 明代版刻綜目, 揚州: 廣陵古籍刻印社, 1983. 8 volumes.

    Miao Yonghe 缪咏禾, Mingdai chuban shigao 明代出版史稿, 南京: 江苏人民出版社, 2000.

    Pan Chengbi 潘承弼, Gu Tinglong 顧廷龍, eds., Mingdai banben tulu chubian 明代版本圖錄初編, 上海: 開明書店, 1941, 4 volumes. Also: 臺北: 文海出版社, 1971, 1 volume.

    Zhao Qian 趙前, Mingdai banke tudian 明代版刻圖典, 北京: 文物出版社, 2008.

    Zhou Xinhui 周心慧, ed., Mingdai banke tushi 明代版刻图释, 北京: 学苑出版社, 1998. 4 volumes.