Back to matchesWe found a matchYour institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.TitleThe Distant Sound of Book Boats: The Itinerant Book Trade in Jiangnan from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries.AuthorsWang, FanAbstractThe article reconstructs itinerant bookselling practices in late imperial China and explores the significance of itinerant booksellers and their book boats as mediating agents between producers and consumers of books.SubjectsCHINA; BOOKSELLERS &; bookselling; CHINESE history; BOOK industryPublicationLate Imperial China, 2018, Vol 39, Issue 2, p17ISSN0884-3236Publication typeArticleDOI10.1353/late.2018.0009