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The price of novels in the late Qing Dynasty

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Frontiers of Literary Studies in China

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The introduction of advanced printing technology from the West and “the fiction revolution” accelerated fiction writing and printing into the modern mode. The book markets quickly expanded and the proportion of fiction publications solidly grew, which all led to a fiercer competition for the reading market. During this transition, the price of fictional literature fluctuated and was stabilized only through the fierce competition as well as the supervision from the mass media.

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  1. College of Humanities, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 200062, China

    Chen Dakang

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Translated from Huadong shifan daxue xuebao (zhexue shehui kexue ban) 华东师范大学学报 (哲学社会科学版) [Journal of East China Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences)], 2005(4): 31–41 by FU Huisheng

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Chen, D. The price of novels in the late Qing Dynasty. Front. Lit. Stud. China 1, 125–134 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11702-007-0006-6

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