Seminar on East Asian Print Culture and Society: Cultures of Books, Print and Reading in Japan

This seminar examines developments in the production, circulation, and consumption of books and other print media in Japan, focusing primarily on the seventeenth to twentieth centuries. Specific topics include transitions from manuscript to print and the growth of commercial publishing in the early modern period; text and image in early modern books; literacy, education and habits of reading; impact of new technologies, media, and patterns of circulation on the development of literature; and to some extent, Japanese book and print culture in the larger East Asian context. Common readings will be in English, but seminar participants who are able to use Japanese sources will be expected to do so. Prerequisite: graduate standing or permission of instructors.

Seminar on East Asian Print Culture and Society: Cultures of Books, Print and Reading in Japan

EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES & CULTURES 554

Section 01