LEADER 02997nam 22004813 450 001 9910984682303321 005 20251121084509.0 010 $a9781501769207 010 $a1501769200 035 $a(CKB)5580000000524048 035 $a(BIP)084300329 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6992537 035 $a(Perlego)3863413 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6992537 035 $a(OCoLC)1373347480 035 $a(EXLCZ)995580000000524048 100 $a20251121d2023 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBandits in Print $eThe Water Margin and the Transformations of the Chinese Novel 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aIthaca :$cCornell University Press,$d2023. 210 4$dİ2023. 215 $a1 online resource (192 p.) $cill 311 08$a9781501769191 311 08$a1501769197 327 $aBandits in Print -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Bandits' Reception -- 1. "Falsifying a Biography Brought Him Power": The "Wuding Editions" of Guo Xun -- 2. "One Freshly Slaughtered Pig, Two Flagons of Jinhua Wine . . . and a Small Book": The Censorate Edition -- 3. After the Fire: Li Kaixian, The Precious Sword, and the "Xiong Damu Mode" -- 4. Characters in the Margins: The Commercial Editions -- 5. "The Art of Subtle Phrasing Has Been Extinguished": The Jin Shengtan Edition -- Conclusion: Bandits in Print -- Selected List of Characters -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. 330 8 $aBandits 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. 517 $aBandits in Print 610 $aLanguage and languages 610 $aLanguage arts & disciplines 676 $a895.134609 700 $aGregory$b Scott W$01440125 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910984682303321 996 $aBandits in Print$93602722 997 $aUNINA