| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.1

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Lucille Chia. Printing for Profit: The Commercial Publishers of Jianyang, Fujian (11th-17th Centuries). (Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series, number 56.) Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, for the Harvard-Yenching Institute, Cambridge, Mass.; distributed by Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. 2002. Pp. xxi, 442. $50.00.
Lucille Chia has provided us with the first focused investigation of the book trade in Jianyang, a small and remote city located in northwestern Fujian, from the early Song through the late Ming dynasties. In so doing, she joins the expanding number of scholars in both the West and elsewhere who are developing the history of printing in China and making an important contribution to our understanding of China's cultural and technological heritage. She is to be commended for her exhaustive exploration of the Jianyang trade in such a readable, lavishly illustrated book. As Chia conclusively demonstrates, throughout the centuries in question Jianyang was one of the most important centers of Chinese publishing.	1
Chia, who styles her inquiry a "social history of the Chinese book" (p. 14), breaks her text into three primary sections: an introduction, including an overview of the Minbei region of which Jianyang is the economic and demographic core as well as a general introduction to the book trade itself; a survey of the development of the Jianyang trade through the Song and Yuan dynasties; and a parallel survey of the trade during the Ming dynasty, with a focus on the period after 1500, when the trade experienced its greatest era after a period of relative quiescence in the early Ming.	. . .

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