LEADER 02440nam 2200385Ia 450 001 996556967003316 005 20231101071823.0 024 7 $a10.1515/9781501769214 035 $a(CKB)4960000000467719 035 $a(DE-B1597)670309 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501769214 035 $a(EXLCZ)994960000000467719 100 $a20231101h20232023 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBandits in Print $e"The Water Margin" and the Transformations of the Chinese Novel /$fScott W. Gregory 210 1$aIthaca, NY : $cCornell University Press, $d[2023] 210 4$dİ2023 215 $a1 online resource (192 p.) $c9 b&w halftones 311 $a1-5017-6921-9 330 $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. 606 $aHISTORY / Asia / China$2bisacsh 610 $ahistory of the chinese novel, Ming Dynasty literature, four classic novels of china, Water Margin meaning, vernacular Mandarin novels. 615 7$aHISTORY / Asia / China. 700 $aGregory$b Scott W., $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01440125 712 02$aGeis Foundation$4fnd$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/fnd 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996556967003316 996 $aBandits in Print$93602722 997 $aUNISA