Book Circulation and Reading Reception in East Asia in the Mid-nineteenth Century:A Study of Wei Yuan's Haiguotuzhi
Wei Yuan's Haiguotuzhi is a geographic work of great influence in East Asia after Lin Zexu's Sizhouzhi.Wei Yuan wrote the 50-volume Haiguotuzhi in 1842,expanded it to 60 volumes in 1847,and supplemented it to 100 volumes in 1852.The book was first brought back to Korea in 1845 by Kwon Dae-keun by land,and then imported to Japan in 1851 by the Chinese merchant ship Ohi No.2,after which the Japanese reprints were returned to Korea because of their simplicity and ease of reading,and at the same time,the reprinting craze in Japan influenced the Chinese re-recognition of the value in the book.Through the reading of history,the paper analyzes the limited dissemination of Haiguotuzhi a-mong the Chinese scholarly class in the mid-nineteenth century,its reception by the Japanese upper in-tellectuals and lower samurai,and its circulation by the two classes of officials of the Joseon School of Realism and the zhongren,it goes further to discuss the impact of these reading activities on the progres-sive thinking of the countries in which they took place.
Wei YuanHaiguotuzhiEast Asian book circulationreading reception
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