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Early Printing in China Viewed from the Perspective of Local Gazetteers (2011)

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Local gazetteers are a rich source for scholars of Chinese book history. This chapter examines the ways in which pre-1400 local gazetteers were initiated, compiled, financed, printed, supplemented, lost, and recompiled, mostly by Chinese, but also by Mongols and Central Asians. In the process, it is seen that government officials and local elites valued gazetteers, printing was normative for gazetteers by the Southern Song, and their production continued to expand during the Yuan and early Ming. Gazetteers were never a manuscript-only genre. Even before the emergence of gazetteers, map guides were being printed. To publish a local gazetteer one needed money for labor and materials. Data on the costs of producing pre-1400 gazetteers is extremely limited, even compared to the modest amount known for the middle and late Ming.

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Authors & Contributors
Han, Jishao
L. U. Mingxin
Ronald Egan
Joseph P. McDermott
Boyanton, Stephen
Lucille Chia
Concepts
East Asia, civilization and culture
Medicine
Books
Technology
Technology and society
Alchemy
Time Periods
Song Dynasty (China, 960-1279)
Tang dynasty (China, 618-907)
Medieval
Ancient
Yuan Dynasty (China, ca. 1260-1368)
Qing dynasty (China, 1644-1912)
Places
China
Greece
Institutions
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
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