Bandits in Print - "the Water Margin" and the Transformations of the Chinese Novel - Scott W. Gregory - Paperback Bog - Cornell University Press -

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Bandits in Print examines the world of print in early modern China, focusing on the classic novel The Water Margin (Shuihu zhuan). Depending on which edition a reader happened upon, The Water Margin could offer vastly different experiences, a characteristic of the early modern Chinese novel genre and the shifting print culture of the era.