Chinese Book Culture in the Early Modern Period

Professor Cynthia Brokaw, Yip Fellow at Magdalene and 2021 Panizzi Lecturer at the British Library will be speaking informally about her work on Chinese book culture in the early modern period.

Venue: The Parlour, Magdalene College, Cambridge.

All welcome. Drinks provided.

Owing to restrictions, the talk and question period will finish by 7.15pm. Please email us to indicate your attendance in advance, at secretary.cpbt@gmail.com.

Professor Cynthia Brokaw, Professor of History and East Asian Studies and Chen Family Professor of Chinese Studies, teaches early modern Chinese history at Brown University. Her research focuses on the social history of publishing and book culture in China, with particular attention to the relationship between the growth of commercial publishing and the development of a large commoner reading public in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. As the current Yip Fellow at Magdalene and 2021 Panizzi Lecturer at the British Library, she will be speaking informally about her work on Chinese book culture in the early modern period. Please see our events page for further details.