Chapter Four: Printing and Circulating “Precious Scrolls” in Early Twentieth-Century Shanghai and its Vicinity: Toward an Assessment of Multifunctionality of the Genre

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Introduction: Print Culture and Religion in Chinese History 1
4. Chapter One: The Colportage of the Protestant Bible in Late Qing China: The Example of the British and Foreign Bible Society 17
5. Chapter Two: Publishing Prophecy: A Century of Adventist Print Culture in China 51
6. Chapter Three: Navigating the Sea of Scriptures: The Buddhist Studies Collectanea, 1918–1923 91
7. Chapter Four: Printing and Circulating “Precious Scrolls” in Early Twentieth-Century Shanghai and its Vicinity: Toward an Assessment of Multifunctionality of the Genre 139
8. Chapter Five: The Xiantiandao and Publishing in the Guangzhou-Hong Kong Area from the Late Qing to the 1930s: The Case of the Morality Book Publisher Wenzaizi 187
9. Chapter Six: Morality Book Publishing and Popular Religion in Modern China: A Discussion Centered on Morality Book Publishers in Shanghai 233
10. Chapter Seven: Illuminating Goodness – Some Preliminary Considerations of Religious Publishing in Modern C 265
11. Bibliography 295
12. Contributors 321
13. Index 325