Title: Reading illustrated fiction in the late imperial China
First published: 1998
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.
Subjects: Chinese fiction, History and criticism, Illustrations, Book design, Illustration of books, Chinese fiction, history and criticism
Places: China
Time periods: Ming-Qing dynasties, 1368-1912, Ming dynasty,1368-1644, Qing dynasty, 1644-1912
LC classification: PL2415 .H44 1998