Reading illustrated fiction in the late imperial China
By: Robert E. Hegel.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 489
Subjects: Chinese fiction -- Illustrations; Illustration of books -- China -- Ming-Qing dynasties, 1368-1912; Book design -- China; Chinese fiction -- Ming dynasty,1368-1644 -- History and criticism; Chinese fiction -- Qing dynasty, 1644-1912 -- History and criticism
Description: This work explores significant physical aspects of the printed book in late imperial China to reconstruct the changing assumptions with which Chinese popular novels were originally read from the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries. It focuses on the previously neglected areas of book format, varieties of illustrations and their significance, and the theory and practice of reading illustrated narratives.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 445-484) and index.