Project Details
Projekt
For Readers and Collectors: Publishing Copies of Works on Demand in Peking between the Late 18th and the Early 20th Century (C10*)
Subject Area
Asian Studies
Term
from 2015 to 2019
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 181924784
Between the late 18th and early 20th century, there were a number of publishing companies in Beijing that copied arias from operas, folk ballads and other short literary texts at their customers¿ request and sold them from catalogues displayed at temple fairs. This research project explores how it was possible for a business model based on manuscripts to survive for more than a hundred years in an age of book-printing and lithography. It will examine how the manuscripts were produced and who bought them for what purpose.
DFG Programme
Collaborative Research Centres
Applicant Institution
Universität Hamburg
Project Head
Professor Dr. Michael Friedrich
