Home and the World: Editing the "Glorious Ming" in Woodblock-Printed Books of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

China�� sixteenth and seventeenth centuries saw an unprecedented explosion in the production of woodblock-printed books. This volume considers what a wide range of late Ming books reveal about their readers��ideas of a pleasurable private life, as well as their orientations toward early modernity and toward traditional Chinese sources of authority.