Home and the World - Editing Glorious Ming in Woodblock printed Books of Sixteenth

Zusammenfassung China’s sixteenth and seventeenth centuries saw an unprecedented explosion in the production of woodblock-printed books. This volume considers what a wide range of late Ming books reveal about their readers’ ideas of a pleasurable private life, as well as their orientations toward early modernity and toward traditional Chinese sources of authority.

Product details

• Authors: Yuming He, Yumming He
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.12.2012
• EAN: 9780674066809
• ISBN: 978-0-674-06680-9
• No. of pages: 275
• Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series; Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous