Part I. China. The making of an imprint in China, 1000-1800 / Joseph McDermott; Tu and Shu: illustrated manuscripts in the great age of song printing / Maggie Bickford -- Byways in the Imperial Chinese information order: the dissemination and commercial publication of state documents / Hilde de Weerdt -- Mashaben: commercial publishing in Jianyang from the Song to the Ming / Lucille Chia -- Ming audiences and vernacular hermeneutics: the uses of The Romance of the Three Kingdoms / Anne E. McLaren -- Writing for success: printing, examinations, and intellectual change in late Ming China / Kai-wing Chow -- The Huanduzhai of Hangzhou and Suzhou: a study in 17th-century publishing / Ellen Widmer -- Visual hermeneutics and the act of turning the leaf: a genealogy of Liu Yuan's Lingyan ge / Anne Burkus-Chasson -- Commercial publishing in late Imperial China: the Zou and Ma family businesses of Sibao, Fujian / Cynthia J. Brokaw, Part II. Korea. Propagating female virtues in Choson Korea / Martina Deuchler -- Literary production, circulating libraries, and private publishing: the popular reception of vernacular fiction texts in the late Choson dynasty / Michael Kim, and Part III. Japan. Centres of printing in medieval Japan: late Heian to early Edo period / K.B. Gardner -- Provincial publishing in the Tokugawa period / P.F. Kornicki -- Manuscript, not print: scribal culture in the Edo Period / P.F. Kornicki -- The transfer of learning: the import of Chinese and Dutch books in Tokugawa Japan / W.J. Boot -- The Daiso lending library of Nagoya, 1767-1899 / Andrew Markus -- Books and book illustrations in early modern Japan / Ekkehard May -- The history of the book in Edo and Paris / Henry D. Smith II -- Entrepreneurship and culture: the Hakubunkan publishing empire in Meiji Japan / Giles Richter