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Kai-wing Chow
Professor Kai-wing Chow specializes in intellectual and cultural history of Ch
ina, with a current focus on the late imperial period. He has just completed a
study of the impact of printing on cultural production in sixteenth and seven
teenth century China, which will be published as Printing, Culture, and Power
in Late Imperial China by Stanford University Press. With Cynthia Brokaw, he h
as edited a conference volume on Print Culture in Late Imperial China (Univers
ity of California Press, forthcoming). He is also interested in issues like th
e politics of identity formation, power relations in cross-cultural translatio
n and the politics of knowledge making. He has published an article entitled
"Narrating Nation, Race, and National Culture: Imagining the Hanzu Identity in
Modern China," in Constructing Nationhood in Modern East Asia, ed. by Kai-win
g Chow, Kevin Doak and Poshek Fu (University of Michigan Press, 2001). He cont
inues to maintain a strong interest in interpretive issues in Classical schola
rship and ethical thought, which he explores in his first book, The Rise of Co
nfucian Ritualism in Late Imperial China: Ethics, Classics, and Lineage Discou
rse (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994).
Publishing, Culture, and Power in Early Modern China
by Kai-wing Chow
Stanford University Press
Due/Published December 2003, 352 pages, cloth
This book is a study of print culture in early modern China. It argues that pr
inting--with both woodblocks and movable type--exerted a profound influence on
Chinese society in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The book examines
the rise and impact of print culture from both economic and cultural perspect
ives.
In economic terms, the central issues were the price of books and the costs of
book production. Chow argues that contrary to accepted views, inexpensive boo
ks were widely available to a growing literate population. An analysis of the
economic and operating advantages of woodblock printing explains why it remain
ed the dominant technology even as the use of movable type was expanding.
The cultural focus shows the impact of commercial publishing on the production
of literary culture, particularly on the civil service examination. The expan
sion of the book market produced publicity for literary professionals whose au
thority came to challenge the authority of the official examiners.
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