“装订”作为书籍“交流循环”的环节及其意义——一个基于比较视野的书籍史考察

Binding as a Step in the Communication Cyle of Books and Its Significance:Revisiting the Book History from the Comparative Perspective

欧洲十六世纪以降商业出版“交流循环”(communications circuit)中存在着“装订”环节,“装订”主要反映的不是印刷而是出版和销售的内涵。明代中后期至清初商业出版中同样存在着这一环节,以通俗小说书籍最为典型。“装订”的存在,乃是当时商业出版及图书贸易实际的必然结果。以“装订”为观照视角,可以对明代中后期至清初蓬勃兴盛的商业出版得到崭新的认知,并能够帮助我们发现通俗小说纷纭复杂的文献、文本问题的真相。

There was a“binding”step in the communication cycle of European commercial publishing from the 16 th century,and binding mainly reflected the content of publishing and marketing instead of printing.Binding also existed in China s commercial publishing from the mid-and late-Ming Dynasty to the beginning of Qing Dynasty,typically in terms of popular fiction books.Binding was an inevitable result of the-then commercial publishing and book trade.From the comparative perspective of binding,we can renew our understanding of the boom in commercial publishing from the mid-and late-Ming Dynasty to the beginning of Qing Dynasty,and discover the truth behind the complicated document and textual issues about popular fictions.