1. Introduction / Joseph McDermott and Peter Burke -- 2. Bibliography, population, and statistics : a view from the west / David McKitterick -- 3. "Noncommercial" private publishing in late imperial China / Joseph McDermott -- 4. Distribution : the transmission of books in Europe and its colonies : contours, cautions, and global comparisons / James Raven -- 5. Empire of texts : book production, book distribution, and book culture in late imperial China / Cynthia Brokaw -- 6. The proliferation of reference books, 1450-1850 / Peter Burke, with Joseph McDermott -- 7. Books for women and women readers / Peter Kornicki -- 8. Epilogue / Joseph McDermott and Peter Burke -- East Asian and European book history : a short bibliographical essay.

"This volume provides the first comparative survey of the relations between the two most active book worlds in Eurasia between 1450 and 1850. Prominent scholars in book history explore different approaches to publishing, printing, and book culture. They discuss the extent of technology transfer and book distribution between the two regions and show how much book historians of East Asia and Europe can learn from one another by raising new questions, exploring remarkable similarities and differences in these regions' production, distribution, and consumption of books. The chapters in turn show different ways of writing transnational comparative history. Whereas recent problems confronting research on European books can instruct researchers on East Asian book production, so can the privileged role of noncommercial publications in the East Asian textual record highlight for historians of the European book the singular contribution of commercial printing and market demands to the making of the European printed record. Likewise, although production growth was accompanied in both regions by a wider distribution of books, woodblock technology's simplicity and mobility allowed for a shift in China of its production and distribution sites farther down the hierarchy of urban sites than was common in Europe. And, the different demands and consumption practices within these two regions' expanding markets led to different genre preferences and uses as well as to the growth of distinctive female readerships. A substantial introduction pulls the work together and the volume ends with an essay that considers how these historical developments shape the present book worlds of Eurasia."--back cover note.

Impressions of the East : treasures from the C.V. Starr East Asian Library, University of California, Berkeley / Deborah Rudolph ; foreword by Peter Zhou.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-177).

Part I. Technical impressions. Before the block-printed book: Shell and bone script -- Seals -- Stone inscriptions -- A million printed charms -- Woodblock imprints: The block-printed leaf -- Dating engraving and dating printing -- Temple printing -- Government printing -- Printing and diplomacy -- Woodblock illustration -- Variations in print: Metal movable-type printing -- Wooden movable-type printing -- Ligatured movable type -- Hand-colored woodblock illustration -- Color woodblock illustration -- Embellishments -- Printing for a popular audience: Jianyang Publishing -- Illustrated popular fiction -- Samurai authors -- Pulp fiction -- Kuchi-e -- Transmission of texts: Banned books -- Unpublishable material -- Manuscripts -- Personal copies -- Error in transmission -- Part II. Cultural impressions. The three teachings: Confucian morality -- Korean Confucianism -- Religious Daoism -- Acts of devotion -- Religion of images -- Court, town, and country: The Heian court -- Choson Seoul -- Celebrated places -- Whales and whaling -- Tilling and weaving -- The pursuit of pleasure: Ehon -- Closet drama -- Ink cakes -- The Tokaido -- Wordplay -- Graffiti -- Foreign exchange: Dutch learning -- Sakhalin ethnography -- Engineering in translation -- Missionary of science -- Mapping land and sea: Coastal defense -- Invasion -- Commercial map making -- World views.