Print Culture

21 books

Amusing Ourselves to Death cover
Amusing Ourselves to Death Neil Postman CITIC Press · 2015 Though written forty years ago, this book is often called a "prophecy" by readers. Postman's brilliance lies not in sensational criticism but in pushi…
Amusing Ourselves to Death cover
Amusing Ourselves to Death Neil Postman CITIC Press · 2015 This book was published in 1985 and is about television, yet reading it in the age of smartphones is all the more sobering: Postman was never concerne…
Amusing Ourselves to Death cover
Amusing Ourselves to Death Neil Postman CITIC Press · 2015 Amusing Ourselves to Death, first published in 1985, is Neil Postman's most important work and the best-known classic of media ecology. The book's cor…
Printing and the Ancient Prose Movement in Northern Song China cover
Printing and the Ancient Prose Movement in Northern Song China Su Yongqiang Zhejiang University Press · 2010 This is a book that places technology and literary style on the same table. Discussions of the Ancient Prose movement usually begin with the genealogi…
The Allure of Theater: The Production and Reproduction of Early Chinese Theater (1300-2000) cover
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The Allure of Theater: The Production and Reproduction of Early Chinese Theater (1300-2000) 夏颂 / 李安光 Guangxi Normal University Press · 2025 The Drama of temptation? The original suggests "The Allure of Theater: The Production and Reproduction of Early Chinese Drama (1300–2000)." The Allure…
T. B. Peterson's List of Publications cover
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T. B. Peterson's List of Publications T.B. Peterson & Brothers Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
French Book-plates cover
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French Book-plates Hamilton, Walter, 1844-1899 Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
Selected List of Swan Sonnenschein & Co.'s Publications cover
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Selected List of Swan Sonnenschein & Co.'s Publications Swan Sonnenschein & Co. Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
The Story of Books cover
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The Story of Books Rawlings, Gertrude Burford Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
Noticia de livreiros e impressores de Lisbôa na 2ª metade do seculo XVI cover
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Noticia de livreiros e impressores de Lisbôa na 2ª metade do seculo XVI Brito, Gomes de, 1843-1923 Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
The Annual Catalogue cover
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The Annual Catalogue Worrall, John, -1771 Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
W. & R. Chambers' Catalogue. - 1897 cover
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W. & R. Chambers' Catalogue. - 1897 W. & R. Chambers Ltd. Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
A History of Officially Commissioned Book Compilation in the Ming Dynasty cover
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A History of Officially Commissioned Book Compilation in the Ming Dynasty 霍艳芳 Zhonghua Book Company · 2023 This book examines the organizational bodies, preparatory personnel, achievements, and the compilation process of representative works of officially c…
Qing Dynasty Engravers and Block-Printing Typefaces cover
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Qing Dynasty Engravers and Block-Printing Typefaces 郑幸 Zhonghua Book Company · 2022 The study of block carvers has long been an important part of traditional bibliography, and this book is the first monograph to examine Qing dynasty b…
Publishing and Cultural Politics: A Study of "Hygiene" Books in the Late Qing cover
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Publishing and Cultural Politics: A Study of "Hygiene" Books in the Late Qing 张仲民 Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2021 The term 'weisheng' (hygiene/health) became increasingly popular in the late Qing dynasty, and a large number of books and periodicals on physiology, …
A Catalogue of Books Published cover
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A Catalogue of Books Published Methuen & Co. Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
The Book: Its History and Development cover
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The Book: Its History and Development Davenport, Cyril, 1848-1941 Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
Litanaiit Liturgiillo attoraksat illagêktunut Labradoremẽtunut cover
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Litanaiit Liturgiillo attoraksat illagêktunut Labradoremẽtunut Anonymous Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
A History of Fifty Years Since the Opening of Japan: Newspapers, Magazines, and Publishing cover
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A History of Fifty Years Since the Opening of Japan: Newspapers, Magazines, and Publishing 鸟谷部铣太郎 Kaikoku Gojūnen Shi Hakkōsho · 2019 In July 1853, the U.S. East India Squadron arrived in Japan, forcing the Tokugawa shogunate to abandon its policy of national seclusion and open the c…
Three Thousand Years of Chinese Books cover
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Three Thousand Years of Chinese Books Pan Meiyue CITIC Press · 2026 When we look at Chinese culture through the lens of "national studies," we are in fact raising a high wall; when we view it as "traditional culture," …