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New CEAS book: Bandits in Print

book cover Bandits in Print

Bandits in Print: The Water Margin and the Transformations of the Chinese Novel by Scott Gregory

Bandits in Print examines the world of print in early modern China, focusing on the classic novel The Water Margin (Shuihu zhuan). Depending on which edition a reader happened upon, The Water Margin could offer vastly different experiences, a characteristic of the early modern Chinese novel genre and the shifting print culture of the era.