Lucille Chia
Biographic Data
| ID | 4795110 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lucille Chia |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lucille |
| FAMILY NAME | Chia |
| SIGNATURE | CHIA L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Riverside |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The First Print Era
The Distance of a Bowshot
Reviewed by: "'The Distance of a Bowshot': Some Remarks on Measurement in the Altaic World" by Hok-lam Chan Lucille Chia Hok-lam Chan, "'The Distance of a Bowshot': Some Remarks on Measurement in the Altaic World," JSYS 25 (1995): 29–46. For nomadic and seminomadic peoples, whose archery skills were essential to their lives in hunting, war, sport, and ritual, the distance of a bowshot was a universal measure of distance and space. This is the sta…
Printing and Publishing in East Asia through circa 1600
Printing and Publishing in East Asia through circa 1600An Extremely Brief Survey Lucille Chia Introduction The history of book culture and printing in East Asia shows how different cultures that used the same manuscript and print techniques to produce many of the same books in the same language (Chinese) developed distinctive book cultures. This essay focuses on China and compares its book culture with those of Korea and Japan, from the inception…
Of Three Mountains Street
R ivi H andler -S pitz . Symptoms of an Unruly Age
The latter part of China’s Ming dynasty, from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-seventeenth century, is a period characterized as “early modern,” a label that Rivi Handler-Spitz uses in her work Symptoms of an Unruly Age: Li Zhi and Cultures of Early Modernity to describe not just China but Western Europe during the same time. In particular, Handler-Spitz focuses on one individual, the iconoclastic scholar-official Li Zhi (1527–1602), whose life and w…
Concubinage and Servitude in Late Imperial China, written by Hsieh Bao Hua, 2014
Chinese Books and Printing in the Early Spanish Philippines
Knowledge and Text Production in an Age of Print
The essays in this volume seek to flesh out the diversity of Chinese textual production during the period spanning the tenth and fourteenth centuries when printing became a widely used technology. By exploring the social and political relations that shaped the production and reproduction of printed texts, the impact of intellectual and religious formations on book production, the interaction between print and other media, readership, and the grow…
A Dragon's Head and a Serpent's Tail
The Writing of Weddings in Middle-Period China
Legends of the Building of Old Peking
Publications of the Ming Principalities
Studies on the history of the book in imperial China have so far focused on the activities of commercial publishers, whose imprints outnumbered those of private and government publishers. Since the success of commercial publishers depended on their accurate response to and anticipation of the needs of their different readers, an examination of their works allows us to learn much about the cultural trends of the times. Analysis of government publi…
The Butcher, the Baker, and the Carpenter
This article considers the impact on southern Fujian of the trade with and migration to the Spanish Philippines by examining the links of the Chinese there with their native places, particularly in the half century after the resumption of Chinese maritime trade in 1684. To understand the local history of Minnan, it is necessary to look both at the extensive network of Minnanese in Southeast Asia (Nanyang) and China, and at the important social an…
Printing for Profit
Printing for Profit
Qing Colonial Enterprise
The Development of the Jianyang Book Trade, Song-Yuan
Late Imperial China - Volume 17, Number 1, June 1996
The Butcher, the Baker, and the Carpenter
This article considers the impact on southern Fujian of the trade with and migration to the Spanish Philippines by examining the links of the Chinese there with their native places, particularly in the half century after the resumption of Chinese maritime trade in 1684. To understand the local history of Minnan, it is necessary to look both at the extensive network of Minnanese in Southeast Asia (Nanyang) and China, and at the important social an…
Publications of the Ming Principalities
Studies on the history of the book in imperial China have so far focused on the activities of commercial publishers, whose imprints outnumbered those of private and government publishers. Since the success of commercial publishers depended on their accurate response to and anticipation of the needs of their different readers, an examination of their works allows us to learn much about the cultural trends of the times. Analysis of government publi…
The Development of the Jianyang Book Trade, Song-Yuan
Late Imperial China - Volume 17, Number 1, June 1996
Qing Colonial Enterprise
Printing for Profit
Printing for Profit
Publications of the Ming Principalities
Studies on the history of the book in imperial China have so far focused on the activities of commercial publishers, whose imprints outnumbered those of private and government publishers. Since the success of commercial publishers depended on their accurate response to and anticipation of the needs of their different readers, an examination of their works allows us to learn much about the cultural trends of the times. Analysis of government publi…
The Butcher, the Baker, and the Carpenter
This article considers the impact on southern Fujian of the trade with and migration to the Spanish Philippines by examining the links of the Chinese there with their native places, particularly in the half century after the resumption of Chinese maritime trade in 1684. To understand the local history of Minnan, it is necessary to look both at the extensive network of Minnanese in Southeast Asia (Nanyang) and China, and at the important social an…
The Writing of Weddings in Middle-Period China
Legends of the Building of Old Peking
A Dragon's Head and a Serpent's Tail
Chinese Books and Printing in the Early Spanish Philippines
Knowledge and Text Production in an Age of Print
The essays in this volume seek to flesh out the diversity of Chinese textual production during the period spanning the tenth and fourteenth centuries when printing became a widely used technology. By exploring the social and political relations that shaped the production and reproduction of printed texts, the impact of intellectual and religious formations on book production, the interaction between print and other media, readership, and the grow…
Concubinage and Servitude in Late Imperial China, written by Hsieh Bao Hua, 2014
Of Three Mountains Street
R ivi H andler -S pitz . Symptoms of an Unruly Age
The latter part of China’s Ming dynasty, from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-seventeenth century, is a period characterized as “early modern,” a label that Rivi Handler-Spitz uses in her work Symptoms of an Unruly Age: Li Zhi and Cultures of Early Modernity to describe not just China but Western Europe during the same time. In particular, Handler-Spitz focuses on one individual, the iconoclastic scholar-official Li Zhi (1527–1602), whose life and w…
Printing and Publishing in East Asia through circa 1600
Printing and Publishing in East Asia through circa 1600An Extremely Brief Survey Lucille Chia Introduction The history of book culture and printing in East Asia shows how different cultures that used the same manuscript and print techniques to produce many of the same books in the same language (Chinese) developed distinctive book cultures. This essay focuses on China and compares its book culture with those of Korea and Japan, from the inception…
The Distance of a Bowshot
Reviewed by: "'The Distance of a Bowshot': Some Remarks on Measurement in the Altaic World" by Hok-lam Chan Lucille Chia Hok-lam Chan, "'The Distance of a Bowshot': Some Remarks on Measurement in the Altaic World," JSYS 25 (1995): 29–46. For nomadic and seminomadic peoples, whose archery skills were essential to their lives in hunting, war, sport, and ritual, the distance of a bowshot was a universal measure of distance and space. This is the sta…
The First Print Era
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