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oapen-20.500.12657-622192024-03-27T14:14:48Z Bandits in Print Gregory, Scott W. history of the chinese novel, Ming Dynasty literature, four classic novels of china, Water Margin meaning, vernacular Mandarin novels thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHF Asian history thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism Bandits in Print examines the world of print in early modern China, focusing on the classic novel The Water Margin (Shuihu zhuan). Depending on which edition a reader happened upon, The Water Margin could offer vastly different experiences, a characteristic of the early modern Chinese novel genre and the shifting print culture of the era. Scott W. Gregory argues that the traditional novel is best understood as a phenomenon of print. He traces the ways in which this particularly influential novel was adapted and altered in the early modern era as it crossed the boundaries of elite and popular, private and commercial, and civil and martial. Moving away from ultimately unanswerable questions about authorship and urtext, Gregory turns instead to the editor-publishers who shaped the novel by crafting their own print editions. By examining the novel in its various incarnations, Bandits in Print shows that print is not only a stabilizing force on literary texts; in particular circumstances and with particular genres, the print medium can be an agent of textual change. 2023-03-29T15:52:25Z 2023-03-29T15:52:25Z 2023 book ONIX_20230329_9781501769214_190 9781501769214 9781501769191 9781501769207 9781501769689 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/62219 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781501769214.pdf http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501769191/bandits-in-print Cornell University Press Cornell East Asia Series 06a447d4-1d09-460f-8b1d-3b4b09d64407 c9a9618c-a612-4f7a-8805-37560e836b45 9781501769214 9781501769191 9781501769207 9781501769689 Cornell East Asia Series 192 Ithaca [...] open access
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Bandits in Print examines the world of print in early modern China, focusing on the classic novel The Water Margin (Shuihu zhuan). Depending on which edition a reader happened upon, The Water Margin could offer vastly different experiences, a characteristic of the early modern Chinese novel genre and the shifting print culture of the era. Scott W. Gregory argues that the traditional novel is best understood as a phenomenon of print. He traces the ways in which this particularly influential novel was adapted and altered in the early modern era as it crossed the boundaries of elite and popular, private and commercial, and civil and martial. Moving away from ultimately unanswerable questions about authorship and urtext, Gregory turns instead to the editor-publishers who shaped the novel by crafting their own print editions. By examining the novel in its various incarnations, Bandits in Print shows that print is not only a stabilizing force on literary texts; in particular circumstances and with particular genres, the print medium can be an agent of textual change.
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