By Edited by Lucille Chia and Hilde De Weerdt
The essays during this quantity search to flesh out the range of chinese language textual construction in the course of the interval spanning the 10th and fourteenth centuries whilst printing turned a ordinary expertise. by means of exploring the social and political relatives that formed the construction and replica of revealed texts, the influence of highbrow and non secular formations on booklet construction, the interplay among print and different media, readership, and the expansion of collections, the individuals provide the 1st accomplished exam of the cultural heritage of booklet creation within the first 500 years of the historical past of printing. In an afterword historian of the early sleek eu ebook, Ann Blair, displays at the volume's implications for the comparative examine of the effect of printing.
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387. For example, Wang Qi 王琪, when governor of Suzhou in 1059, collated a new edition of Du Fu’s poetry and printed ten thousand copies for sale. He used the proceeds to repay a debt his prefecture owed to the Liangzhe 兩浙 Circuit administration, a debt that had been incurred by the expense of building a new official banquet hall. 1b–2a. ” 7 to count grains of sand on the ocean floor 37 Not surprisingly, a range of examination aids and cheat books were prepared, printed, and sold to them. 9 Another type of examination crib culled sentences from the classics and histories, perhaps arranging them by topical category or rhyme, and intermingled these quotations with passages from essays on current affairs.
Of course, the works of a handful of the most famous writers, perhaps ten or so, were available in imprints, but those of lesser-known writers appear not to have been available in print. In about 1070, the book collector Song Minqiu 宋敏 求 (1019–79) compiled an anthology of Tang poetry he entitled Tang baijia shixuan 唐百家詩選 (A selection of one hundred Tang poets), which contained some 1200 poems. 22 Most of Song Minqiu’s Tang poetry collections must have been manuscripts. One curious feature of the resulting anthology was that it omitted any works by the best known Tang poets (including Li Bai 李白, Du Fu 杜甫, Han Yu 韓愈, as well as Wang Wei 王維, Wei Yingwu 韋應物, Yuan Zhen 元稹, Bai Juyi 白居易, Liu Yuxi 劉禹錫, Liu Zongyuan 柳宗元, Meng Jiao 孟郊, and Zhang Ji 張籍).
The Directorate was not only charged with setting authoritative editions, but also with monitoring texts printed by commercial, local government, and private entities. The Directorate sold copies drawn from the original woodblocks, but, as Mingzong’s order suggests, also allowed other entities to copy and reprint its editions. As the eleventh century progressed, the numbers of potential book buyers expanded as the numbers of students preparing for the civil service examinations increased. Commercial publishers gradually began to displace the central government as a dominant force in the book market.