Home and the World - Editing the “Glorious Ming” in Woodblock-Printed Books of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

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.

Summary

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
• Publisher: Harvard University, Asia Center
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9780674244542
• ISBN: 978-0-674-24454-2
• No. of pages: 366
• Dimensions: 301 mm x 154 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 486 g
• Illustrations: 5 photos, 64 illus.
• Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies