Pan, Jianguo, Metal typography, stone lithography and the dissemination of Ming-Qing popular fictions in Shanghai between 1874 and 1911 (2008)

Title : Metal typography, stone lithography and the dissemination of Ming-Qing popular fictions in Shanghai between 1874 and 1911

Author(s) : Pan, Jianguo

Year : 2008

Type : Journal article

Subject : History

Keywords : cultural;social;economic

Journal : Frontiers of History in China

Volume : 2

Number : 4

Start page : 561

End page : 582

Language:Name : English

Support : Print

URL :
http://www.springerlink.com.gate3.inist.fr/content/37h280xh67444338/

Abstract : Based on historical documents concerning reprinted or illustrated editions of Ming-Qing popular fictions and the sequels to some of them, this article presents a study of the widespread use of typographic and lithographic printing in Shanghai between 1874 and 1911 and the dissemination of Ming-Qing popular fictions. The advent and widespread use of typographic and lithographic printing had both positive and negative effects on the dissemination of Ming-Qing popular fictions, which finalized the transformation of Chinese fiction written in the colloquial style from traditional popular fiction to new fiction or modern fiction in the late Qing period. 运用大量文献史料, 以上海 (1874–1911) 为考察中心, 从 “翻印”、 “续书” 及“图像” 三个方面, 细致论述了铅石印刷文化与明清通俗小说近代传播之间的学术关系: 其中既有积极的推动作用, 也有消极的负面影响; 而正是在此传播环境下, 白话小说史完成了从传统明清通俗小说向晚清新小说, 乃至现代小说的历史转型。