在四堡调研3年的美国俄亥俄州立大学副教授包筠雅（Cynthia J. Brokaw）博士所主编的《中华帝国晚期的印书文化》（Printing and Book Culture in Late Imperial China）一书2005年3月由加州大学出版社出版，其中她自己所撰写的《阅读19世纪的畅销书：四堡的商业出版物》（Reading the Best-Sellers of the Nineteenth Century: Commercial Publications from Sibao）一篇专门论述四堡的印书。现将此书的封面和相关情况介绍于此。
Printing and Book Culture in Late Imperial China
（Edited by Cynthia J. Brokaw and Kai-wing Chow ）
555 pages, 6 x 9 inches, 54 b/w photographs, 9 line illustrations, 1 map, 18 tables
Published March 2005
DESCRIPTION
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 pioneering volume of essays, written by historians, art historians, and literary scholars, introduces the major issues in the social and cultural history of the book in late imperial China. Informed by many insights from the rich literature on the history of the Western book, these essays investigate the relationship between the manuscript and print culture; the emergence of urban and rural publishing centers; the expanding audience for books; the development of niche markets and specialized publishing of fiction, drama, non-Han texts, and genealogies; and more.
CONTENTS
List of Illustrations and Tables
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
PART I: INTRODUCTION
1. On the History of the Book in China--Cynthia J. Brokaw
2. The Ascendance of the Imprint in China--Joseph McDermott
PART II: COMMERCIAL PUBLISHING AND THE EXPANDING MARKET FOR BOOKS
3. Of Three Mountains Street: The Commercial Publishers of Ming Nanjing--Lucille Chia
4. Constructing New Reading Publics in Late Ming China--Anne E. McLaren
5. Reading the Best-Sellers of the Nineteenth Century: Commercial Publications from Sibao--Cynthia J. Brokaw
PART III: PUBLISHING FOR SPECIALIZED AUDIENCES
6. Niche Marketing for Late Imperial Chinese Fiction--Robert E. Hegel
7. Printing as Performance: Literati Playwright-Publishers of the Late Ming--Katherine Carlitz
8. Qing Publishing in Non-Han Languages--Evelyn S. Rawski
9. "Preserving the Bonds of Kin": Genealogy Masters and Genealogy Production in the Jiangsu-Zhejiang Area in the Qing and Republican Periods--Xu Xiaoman
PART IV: THE BOOK AS A VISUAL MEDIUM
10. Visual Hermeneutics and the Act of Turning the Leaf: A Genealogy of Liu Yuan's Lingyan ge--Anne Burkus-Chasson
11. Didactic Illustrations in Printed Books: Choice and Consequence--Julia K. Murray
Glossary
Works Cited
Contributors
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Cynthia J. Brokaw is Associate Professor of History at Ohio State University and author of The Ledgers of Merit and Demerit: Social Change and Moral Order in Late Imperial China (1991). Kai-wing Chow is Professor of History and of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, and author of The Rise of Confucian Ritualism in Late Imperial China: Ethics, Classics, and Lineage Discourse (1994) and Publishing, Culture, and Power in Early Modern China (2004).
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