The Huanduzhai of Hangzhou and Suzhou: a study in seventeenth-century publishing
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The Huanduzhai publishing house operated in two distinct phases from the 1620s to the 1690s in China. The firm was located in Hangzhou and controlled by Wang Qi during the first phase, and moved to Suzhou and was controlled by Wang Ang during the second phase, when the firm specialized in medical texts. Wang Huan appears to have served as a bridge between the two phases, as he worked under both Wang Qi and Wang An and also published between the retirement of Wang Qi and the rise of Wang Ang. Throughout the history of Huanduzhai the publishers attempted to fulfill and influence the interests of readers by providing practical, portable books to meet market demands.
Publication Name: Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0073-0548
Year: 1996
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"Nuzi and the Hurrians: Fragments from a Forgotten Past": a slice of Mesopotamian life in the Fourteenth Century BCE
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A new exhibition at the Semitic Museum of Harvard University focuses on the archaeology of Nuzi which is now known as Yorghan Tepe in Iraq. More than 100 excavated artifacts are featured at the exhibit which opened in Apr 1998. The collection from Nuzi includes cuneiform tablets, pottery, figurines, metal tools and weapons, jewelry, seals and even glass. Documents exhibited represents the private real estate transactions contracted at Nuzi.
Publication Name: Near Eastern Archaeology
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 1094-2076
Year: 1998
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The curtain never rises: femininity and theater censorship in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Germany
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Theater censors in 18th- and 19-century Germany were more concerned with actresses and females in the audiences than with women playwrights. There is a divergent trend in the tradition of censorship historiography, with scholarship on institutional censorship ignoring female authors and scholarship based on gender avoiding institutional censorship. Separations and exclusions in this critical area need further investigation.
Publication Name: The German Quarterly
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0016-8831
Year: 1997
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