Research on Bookshop Industry and Popular Novels in Ming and Qing Dynasties
by Xie Jun
About This Novel
From the mid-Ming Dynasty to the mid-Qing Dynasty, it was the heyday of the bookstore industry and the prosperity of popular novels. The bookstore industry and popular novels prospered almost simultaneously in the mid-Ming Dynasty. The bookshop industry has an immeasurable influence on the development of popular novels. The prosperity of popular novels in the Ming and Qing Dynasties was inseparable from the support of the bookstore industry. The canal cities in the south of the Yangtze River became the areas with the most developed commodity economy in the Ming and Qing Dynasties due to the important status of the Grand Canal and the convenience of water transportation. Suzhou, Hangzhou, Yangzhou, Changzhou, Huzhou and other Jiangnan canal cities became new carving centers and popular novel publishing centers after the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, making great contributions to the development of popular novels in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The bookstore industry in these cities played an important role in the creation, publication, dissemination and acceptance of popular novels in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Driven by the bookshop industry, popular novels of the Ming and Qing dynasties eventually prospered in the canal cities south of the Yangtze River.
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