Joseph P Mcdermott
Biographic Data
| ID | 582554 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joseph P Mcdermott |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joseph P |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcdermott |
| SIGNATURE | MCDERMOTT J P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Ongoing Lives of Books and Their Libraries
One early spring afternoon in 1982 I happened to find myself ambling along Fuzhou Road in Shanghai and coming by chance upon a small unattractive bookstore. The brown paint on its outer doors was peeling, the stucco surface of its exterior needed a good scrubbing, and more than a few tiles on its floor were broken. If then no different in appearance from the other bookstores I had earlier visited along this famous Shanghai book street, this store…
Economic change in China, 960–1279
The Book Worlds of East Asia and Europe, 1450-1850
This volume provides the first comparative survey of the relations between the two most active book worlds in Eurasia between 1450 and 1850. Prominent scholars in book history explore different approaches to publishing, printing, and book culture. They discuss the extent of technology transfer and book distribution between the two regions and show how much book historians of East Asia and Europe can learn from one another by raising new questions…
The Making of a New Rural Order in South China
Among the large caches of private documents discovered and collected in China, few rival the Huizhou sources for the insight they provide into Chinese local society and economy over the past millennium. Having spent decades researching these exceptionally rich sources, Joseph P. McDermott presents in two volumes his findings about the major social and economic changes in this important prefecture of south China from around 900 to 1700. In this fi…
A Social History of the Chinese Book
This book introduces the history of the book in China in the late imperial period from 1000 to 1800. The book assumes little knowledge of Chinese history or culture and compares the Chinese experience with books of other civilizations, particularly the European civilization. It deals with a wide range of issues in the history of the book in China and presents analyses of the changes in Chinese woodblock bookmaking over these centuries. The book p…
Women of Property in China, 960–1368
The issue of women's property rights during the Song dynasty has been heatedly debated for over half a century. First in Japan, and then in China, Taiwan and the West, scholars have developed strikingly divergent views of the legal and social dimensions of Song women's claims to property and control over their remarriage as widows. This article discusses and assesses the different views, particularly those of Bettine Birge in her recent book-leng…
State and court ritual in China
The Confusions of Pleasure
Negotiating Daily Life in Traditional China
The World in Miniature. Container Gardens and Dwellings in Far Eastern Religious Thought
List of figures Foreword Edward H. Schafer Author's preface to the French edition Part I. Miniature gardens in the Far East: Part II. Dwelling Places, Their Physical Details: Part III. The World and Architecture in religious Thought: Notes Bibliography of secondary sources Selected character list Index
Statesmen and Gentlemen
Family and Property in Sung China
Charting Blank Spaces and Disputed Regions
Due to the inadequacies of the surviving sources, this study of the highly controversial issue of Sung land tenure focuses on variations in land tenure practices in six regions of South China during the Southern Sung. It finds that large private landholdings predominated in only a few areas of South China, that they usually did not possess the contiguity and size some have attributed to a supposed Sung manorial order, and that most peasant househ…
Bondservants in the T'ai-hu Basin During the Late Ming
This paper attempts to redefine the nature and conditions of bondservants in the late Ming, particularly in the highly productive T'ai-hu basin. It proposes that the great economic and social differences among bondservants obliges us to treat bondservitude as a legal status, not as a class. It discusses the many causes of bondservitude and its highly varied conditions. Agricultural bondservants accounted for no more than one-fifth of the rural po…
Bondservants in the T'ai-hu Basin During the Late Ming
This paper attempts to redefine the nature and conditions of bondservants in the late Ming, particularly in the highly productive T'ai-hu basin. It proposes that the great economic and social differences among bondservants obliges us to treat bondservitude as a legal status, not as a class. It discusses the many causes of bondservitude and its highly varied conditions. Agricultural bondservants accounted for no more than one-fifth of the rural po…
Charting Blank Spaces and Disputed Regions
Due to the inadequacies of the surviving sources, this study of the highly controversial issue of Sung land tenure focuses on variations in land tenure practices in six regions of South China during the Southern Sung. It finds that large private landholdings predominated in only a few areas of South China, that they usually did not possess the contiguity and size some have attributed to a supposed Sung manorial order, and that most peasant househ…
Bondservants in the T'ai-hu Basin During the Late Ming
This paper attempts to redefine the nature and conditions of bondservants in the late Ming, particularly in the highly productive T'ai-hu basin. It proposes that the great economic and social differences among bondservants obliges us to treat bondservitude as a legal status, not as a class. It discusses the many causes of bondservitude and its highly varied conditions. Agricultural bondservants accounted for no more than one-fifth of the rural po…
Charting Blank Spaces and Disputed Regions
Due to the inadequacies of the surviving sources, this study of the highly controversial issue of Sung land tenure focuses on variations in land tenure practices in six regions of South China during the Southern Sung. It finds that large private landholdings predominated in only a few areas of South China, that they usually did not possess the contiguity and size some have attributed to a supposed Sung manorial order, and that most peasant househ…
Family and Property in Sung China
The World in Miniature. Container Gardens and Dwellings in Far Eastern Religious Thought
List of figures Foreword Edward H. Schafer Author's preface to the French edition Part I. Miniature gardens in the Far East: Part II. Dwelling Places, Their Physical Details: Part III. The World and Architecture in religious Thought: Notes Bibliography of secondary sources Selected character list Index
Statesmen and Gentlemen
Negotiating Daily Life in Traditional China
State and court ritual in China
The Confusions of Pleasure
Women of Property in China, 960–1368
The issue of women's property rights during the Song dynasty has been heatedly debated for over half a century. First in Japan, and then in China, Taiwan and the West, scholars have developed strikingly divergent views of the legal and social dimensions of Song women's claims to property and control over their remarriage as widows. This article discusses and assesses the different views, particularly those of Bettine Birge in her recent book-leng…
A Social History of the Chinese Book
This book introduces the history of the book in China in the late imperial period from 1000 to 1800. The book assumes little knowledge of Chinese history or culture and compares the Chinese experience with books of other civilizations, particularly the European civilization. It deals with a wide range of issues in the history of the book in China and presents analyses of the changes in Chinese woodblock bookmaking over these centuries. The book p…
The Making of a New Rural Order in South China
Among the large caches of private documents discovered and collected in China, few rival the Huizhou sources for the insight they provide into Chinese local society and economy over the past millennium. Having spent decades researching these exceptionally rich sources, Joseph P. McDermott presents in two volumes his findings about the major social and economic changes in this important prefecture of south China from around 900 to 1700. In this fi…
Economic change in China, 960–1279
The Book Worlds of East Asia and Europe, 1450-1850
This volume provides the first comparative survey of the relations between the two most active book worlds in Eurasia between 1450 and 1850. Prominent scholars in book history explore different approaches to publishing, printing, and book culture. They discuss the extent of technology transfer and book distribution between the two regions and show how much book historians of East Asia and Europe can learn from one another by raising new questions…
The Ongoing Lives of Books and Their Libraries
One early spring afternoon in 1982 I happened to find myself ambling along Fuzhou Road in Shanghai and coming by chance upon a small unattractive bookstore. The brown paint on its outer doors was peeling, the stucco surface of its exterior needed a good scrubbing, and more than a few tiles on its floor were broken. If then no different in appearance from the other bookstores I had earlier visited along this famous Shanghai book street, this store…
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