‘The Wuding Editions’: Printing, Power, and Vernacular Fiction in the Ming Dynasty
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Gregory, Scott W.Affiliation
University of ArizonaIssue Date
2017-04-20
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BRILL ACADEMIC PUBLISHERSCitation
‘The Wuding Editions’: Printing, Power, and Vernacular Fiction in the Ming Dynasty 2017, 7 (1):1 East Asian Publishing and SocietyRights
© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2017.Collection Information
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The vernacular fiction 'novel' is a genre typically associated with the explosion of commercial printing activity that occurred in the late sixteenth century. However, by that time, representative works such as the Shuihu zhuan and Sanguo yanyi had already been in print for several decades. Moreover, those early print editions were printed not by commercial entities but rather the elite of the Jiajing court. In order to better understand the genre as a print phenomenon, this paper explores the publishing output of one of those elites: Guo Xun (1475- 1542), Marquis of Wuding. In addition to vernacular fiction, Guo printed a number of other types of books as well. This paper examines the entirety of his publishing activities in order to better contextualize the vernacular novel at this early stage in its life in print.Note
24 month embargo; indexed by Web of Science July 21 2017ISSN
2210-62782210-6286
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Final accepted manuscriptae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1163/22106286-12341302