02440nam 2200385Ia 450 99655696700331620231101071823.010.1515/9781501769214(CKB)4960000000467719(DE-B1597)670309(DE-B1597)9781501769214(EXLCZ)99496000000046771920231101h20232023 fg engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierBandits in Print "The Water Margin" and the Transformations of the Chinese Novel /Scott W. GregoryIthaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2023]©20231 online resource (192 p.) 9 b&w halftones1-5017-6921-9 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.HISTORY / Asia / Chinabisacshhistory of the chinese novel, Ming Dynasty literature, four classic novels of china, Water Margin meaning, vernacular Mandarin novels.HISTORY / Asia / China.Gregory Scott W., authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1440125Geis Foundationfndhttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/fndDE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK996556967003316Bandits in Print3602722UNISA