For Readers and Collectors: Publishing Copies of Works on Demand in Peking between the Late 18th and the Early 20th Century (C10*)

在18世纪末至20世纪初，北京有一些出版公司根据客户的要求，从歌剧、民谣和其他短篇文学作品中复制咏叹调，并根据庙会上展示的目录出售。这个研究项目探讨了一个基于手稿的商业模式是如何在一个书籍印刷和平版印刷的时代存活了一百多年的。它将调查这些手稿是如何产生的，以及谁为了什么目的购买了它们。

Between the late 18th and early 20th century, there were a number of publishing companies in Beijing that copied arias from operas, folk ballads and other short literary texts at their customers¿ request and sold them from catalogues displayed at temple fairs. This research project explores how it was possible for a business model based on manuscripts to survive for more than a hundred years in an age of book-printing and lithography. It will examine how the manuscripts were produced and who bought them for what purpose.