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History of Asia --- Book history --- anno 1700-1799 --- anno 1800-1999 --- anno 1600-1699 --- China --- Book industries and trade --- Publishers and publishing --- Booksellers and bookselling --- Livres --- Editeurs et édition --- Libraires et librairie --- History. --- Industrie --- Histoire --- Sibao (China) --- Sibao (Chine) --- Chine --- Imprints. --- Intellectual life --- Imprimés --- Vie intellectuelle --- S01/0600 --- S10/0590 --- S10/0220 --- China: Bibliography and reference--Books, printing, editing and paper --- China: Economics, industry and commerce--Distribution --- China: Economics, industry and commerce--General works and economic history: 1840 - 1911 --- Editeurs et édition --- Imprimés --- Book publishing --- Books --- Book sales --- Book trade --- Cultural industries --- Manufacturing industries --- History --- Publishing --- Book dealers --- Dealers, Book

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The ledgers of merit and demerit were a type of morality book that achieved sudden and widespread popularity in China during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Consisting of lists of good and bad deeds, each assigned a certain number of merit or demerit points, the ledgers offered the hope of divine reward to users "good" enough to accumulate a substantial sum of merits. By examining the uses of the ledgers during the late Ming and early Qing periods, Cynthia Brokaw throws new light on the intellectual and social history of the late imperial era. The ledgers originally functioned as guides to salvation for twelfth-century Taoists and Buddhists, but Brokaw shows how the literati of turbulent sixteenth-century China began to use them as aids in the struggle for official status through civil service examinations. The author describes how the responses of some Confucian thinkers to the popularity of the ledgers not only refined the orthodox Neo-Confucian method of self-cultivation but also revealed the serious ambiguity of the classic Confucian understanding of the relationship between fate and human action. Finally, she demonstrates that by the end of the seventeenth century the ledgers were used not so much to facilitate upward mobility as to promote social stability by prescribing standards that encouraged people to keep to their social places.Originally published in 1991.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Ethics --- Merit (Ethics) --- Merit (Ethics). --- Moral education --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / General. --- Character education --- Ethical education --- Child rearing --- Education --- Religious education --- Desert (Ethics) --- Moral desert (Ethics) --- Deontology --- Ethics, Primitive --- Ethology --- Moral philosophy --- Morality --- Morals --- Philosophy, Moral --- Science, Moral --- Philosophy --- Values --- History --- History. --- China --- Social conditions

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Computer architecture. Operating systems --- Book history --- Graphics industry --- anno 2000-2009 --- anno 1800-1999 --- China --- S01/0600 --- S11/1600 --- China: Bibliography and reference--Books, printing, editing and paper --- China: Social sciences--Internet --- Books and reading --- Internet publishing --- Literature publishing --- Periodicals --- Printing --- Publishers and publishing --- Printing, Practical --- Typography --- Graphic arts --- Journals (Periodicals) --- Magazines --- Library materials --- Mass media --- Serial publications --- Newspapers --- Press --- Literary publishing --- Literature --- Electronic publishing --- Appraisal of books --- Books --- Choice of books --- Evaluation of literature --- Reading, Choice of --- Reading and books --- Reading habits --- Reading public --- Reading --- Reading interests --- Reading promotion --- Book publishing --- Book industries and trade --- Booksellers and bookselling --- History --- Publishing&delete& --- Political aspects&delete& --- Social aspects&delete& --- Publishing --- Appraisal --- Evaluation --- Political aspects --- Social aspects

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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.

Publishers and publishing --- Books --- History --- China --- Book history --- S01/0600 --- S10/0210 --- 094.1 <51> --- 094 =951 --- 094 =951 Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora--Chinees --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora--Chinees --- 094.1 <51> Oude drukken: bibliografie----China --- Oude drukken: bibliografie----China --- China: Bibliography and reference--Books, printing, editing and paper --- China: Economics, industry and commerce--General works and economic history: before 1840 --- Editeurs et édition --- Livres --- Histoire --- Chine --- Ming dynasty, 1368-1644 --- Qing dynasty, 1644-1912 --- History. --- Publishers and publishing - China - History --- Books - China - History --- China - History - Ming dynasty, 1368-1644 --- China - History - Qing dynasty, 1644-1912 --- asian. --- books. --- chinese drama. --- chinese fiction. --- chinese history. --- chinese literature. --- chinese society. --- chinese students. --- cultural history. --- genealogies. --- history of the book. --- imperial china. --- language. --- literacy scripts. --- literary criticism. --- literary theory. --- literature. --- manuscript. --- ming dynasty. --- nanjing. --- non han texts. --- nonfiction. --- print culture. --- printing. --- publishing. --- qianlong. --- qing dynasty. --- reading audience. --- reading traditions. --- rural publishing. --- sanshan street. --- specialized publishing. --- three mountains street. --- urban china. --- women readers.

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A pioneering exploration of how differences in production and circulation of texts conveyed ideas around the world in a period of exceptional social, political and intellectual change.

Books and reading --- History --- Islam. --- Protestant. --- archive. --- censorship. --- colonialism. --- engraving. --- epistolary. --- expansion. --- journals. --- linguistics. --- naturalists. --- newspapers. --- orthography. --- publishing. --- translation. --- typography. --- vernacular.