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Publishing, Culture, and Power in Early Modern China.(Book review)

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| March 22, 2006 | Nesta, Frederick | COPYRIGHT 2003 University of Texas at Austin (University of Texas Press). This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Publishing, Culture, and Power in Early Modern China. By Kai-Wing Chow. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2004. xv, 397 pp. $49.50. ISBN 0-8047-3367-8.

Although China is credited for inventing movable type, woodblock printing was the preferred method in China until modern times. Kai-Wing Chow, who is now at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, argues that China's continued use of woodblock printing was not a technological failure, as some European scholars maintained, and instead shows that the use of woodblocks for printing not only made economic sense but also allowed Chinese publishers and authors to enter the market on very little capital and…

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