Tables, Maps, and Figures

Notes to the Reader

1. Introduction: The Sibao Book Trade and Qing Society

Part I: The Business of Book Publishing and Bookselling in Sibao

2. The Setting: Minxi and Sibao

3. The Origins of Publishing and the Production of Books in Sibao

4. The Structure of the Sibao Publishing Industry

5. "We are all brothers": Household Division, the Proliferation of Publishing Houses, and the Management of Competition

6. Sibao Bookselling Routes

7. Sojourning Bookselling and the Operation of the Branch Shops

8. Sibao's "Confucian Merchants" in Minxi Society and the Late Imperial Economy

Part II: Sibao Imprints

9. The Nature and Sources of Sibao Imprints

10. Educational Works

11. Guides to Good Manners, Good Health, and Good Fortune

12. Fiction and Belles-Lettres

13. Sibao's Customers and Popular Textual Culture in the Qing

14. The Diffusion of Print Culture in Qing China

Appendixes

A. Transport Routes Within the Min-Gan-Yue Region

B. Value of Woodblocks from the Juxian tand and Dawen tang, 1897

C. Genealogical Charts

Works Cited

Index

Cynthia J. Brokaw is Professor of History at Ohio State University.