Transforming Book Culture in China, 1600-2016

Contents: 

• Transforming Book Culture in China, 1600-2016:
• Introduction / Daria Berg and Giorgio Strafella
• I. Books, Bestsellers and Bibliophiles in Early Modern China, 1600-1700 Books for Sustenance and Life: Bibliophile Practices and Skills in the Late Ming and Qi Chenghan’s Library Dansheng tang / Cathleen Paethe and Dagmar Schäfer
• The Chinese Novel Comes of Age, circa 1620 / Robert E. Hegel
• II. Print Culture at the Threshold of Modernity in Late Imperial and Republican China, 1860-1949 Absolutely Not a Business: Chinese Buddhist Scriptural Presses and Distributors, 1860s-1930s / Gregory Adam Scott
• Women in All Lands and the Hierarchies of ‘Global’ Knowledge in Chinese Print Culture at the Turn of the Twentieth Century / Yun Zhu
• III. Book Culture in Mao’s China, 1949-1976 Crime, Love, and Science: Continuity and Change in Hand-copied Entertainment Fiction {Shouchaoben) from the Cultural Revolution / Lena Henningsen
• IV. Bestsellers and a New Generation of Writers in Post-socialist China, 1997-2016 A View of China ’s Literary Landscape: Interview with Sheng Yun, Woman Editor of the Shanghai Review of Books / Daria Berg and Rui Kunze
• The Formation of Reading Communities: An Analysis of Bestsellers in Post-Socialist China / Winnie L M Yee
• From New Concept to Youth Economy: The Rise and Crisis of the Me Generation / Hui Faye Xiao
• Sex and the Glocalising City: Women Writers as Transcultural Travellers in Postsocialist Chinese Literature, 1997-2016 / Daria Berg and Rui Kunze
• V. Internet Literature and the Ebook Industry in Twenty-first Century China ‘People Must Search within China’s Contradictions to Discover What Really Matters’: An Interview with Bestselling Author Anni Baobei / Daria Berg
• Postsocialist Publishing: Internet Literature in the P R C / Michel Hockx
• Production of Consumption, Consumption of Production: Readers Empowered, Authors Enabled and Digital Prosumption Facilitated in the Landscape of Popular Literature in China / Shih-chen Chao
• Disruptive Innovation in the Chinese Ebook Industry / Xiang Ren
• Blogging and Intellectual Life in Twenty-First Century China / Giorgio Strafella and Daria Berg