7Selected References

English-language References

Edgren, J. S. “The History of the Book in China.” In The Oxford Companion to the Book, edited by Michael F. Suarez, S.J. and H. R. Woudhuysen, 353-365. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.

Fong, Grace S. Herself an Author: Gender, Agency, and Writing in Late Imperial China. University of Hawai'i Press, 2008.

Chinese-language References (Links lead to the HKUL portal)

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2 李菁. 論沈彩的文學創作及其特點[J]. 嘉興學院學報,2019,31(03):34-39.

3 方秀潔,董伯韜. 從邊緣到中心——媵妾們的文學志業[J]. 跨文化研究,2016(01):175-206.

4 駱新泉,王佩瑤. 清代侍妾的生活實錄——沈彩的《春雨樓集》解讀[J]. 南陽理工學院學報,2017,9(03):72-76.

5 駱新泉. 苦樂如斯各自知——清代側室涉夫詩詞解讀[J]. 貴州師范學院學報,2018,34(04):26-32.

6 凌冬梅. 掃花女史沈彩藏書、抄書、刻書述略[J]. 山東圖書館學刊,2013(06):97-100.

7 凌冬梅. 浙江女性藏書家對文化發展與傳承的杰出貢獻[J]. 新世紀圖書館,2014(04):68-71.

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12 (清)沈彩．春雨楼集[M]．乾隆刻本

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Components of a traditional Chinese book page

Traditional Chinese book layout

  1. Head and foot margin: “heavenly head” and “earthly foot”; the upper and lower margin of a page. The head is generally larger than the foot. Comments are sometimes written or printed in the head area, which is called Shumei “book eyebrows”.
  2. Head and foot edge: “book head” and “book foot”; the top and bottom of the book edge.
    Book brain: margin near the sewing edge.
  3. Text frame/border line: sides of a printed area (top, bottom, left and right). The lines can be single or double, for example: four double lines, four single lines, or double lines for the left and right and single for the top and bottom.
  4. Column line/boundary: vertical dividing lines between columns. Spacing between the lines depends on the size of the characters; the color of the lines can be black, blue or red.
  5. Book ear: a narrow box for writing titles or keywords. Located outside the top left border line in the book brain.
  6. Block center: “block heart”; an area of the center column. Book or chapter titles are written or printed in this area. Pagination, total number of characters, and name of the worker who carved the block may appear here. Except for a butterfly binding, this area becomes the fore-edge when the page is folded in half.
  7. White mouth and black mouth: the area above the upper fishtail and below the lower fishtail within the block's center. It is called white mouth if the space is empty, and black mouth if there is a vertical line in the middle. If a thick line is used, it is referred to as a big black mouth.
    Elephant trunk: there are multiple meanings for this term, but it usually means the area with the black mouth. It is called elephant trunk because the combination of the black line and the fishtail resembles the shape of an elephant's trunk. It helps with folding by indicating the center of a page.
  8. Fishtail: resembles the shape of a fishtail; the shape can be white, filled in black, double-lined or decorated in other ways. The fishtail usually appears as a pair (same design), or only as an upper tail. This marking acts as the guide for folding the pages in half along the center.
  9. Plate: space for a colophon. Imprint information such as title, author, block carver, collector, printing location and year, ownership or copyright.
  10. Block face: printed area, dimension of the printing block.