"This collection of essays, comprehensive in scope and illuminating in many aspects, has enriched our understanding of the history on Chinese print culture in the modern period."
Kai-Wing Chow, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Journal of Asian Studies Vol. 72 Number 1 (Feb, 2013)

Cynthia J. Brokaw , Ph.D. (1984), Harvard University, is Professor of History at Brown University. A specialist in Chinese book history, she has published, most recently, Commerce in Culture: The Sibao Book Trade in the Qing and Republican Periods (2007). Christopher A. Reed , Ph.D. (1996), University of California at Berkeley, is Associate Professor of History at The Ohio State University. In 2004, he published the ICAS Humanities Book Prize-winning Gutenberg in Shanghai: Chinese Print Capitalism, 1876-1937 .