조선과 중국의 서적중개상과 서적 유통문화 연구

It is common that book-brokers began to be active from about 16th century and have an influence on progress of book distribution & the publishing business in Korea an China. Book-broker was called by SeoKyei(書儈) or ChaekKyei(冊儈) in Korea and called by SeoKyei(書儈) or Book Ship[書般] in China. Book-brokes can be classified into 3 types-type of being active only in a capital, type of coming and going between a capital and a local, type of wandering only on local cities by their area of activity, and classified into 3 types-an expert type, an multiple occupation(a side job) type, an intellectual type by their functions and character. According to these classification, a lot of book-brokers of an expert type who is active only in a capital are general in Korea and a lot of book brokers of an multiple occupation type who is coming and going between capital and local are universal in China. Such a book brokers, in one hand, played a role of editor of reading culture for the intellectual and book collector, in the other hand, contributed to the development of commercial novel, which can satisfy an interest of low-class readers. Especially, we can confirm that book-brokers had more important role in Korea than in China because book distribution system like a bookstore and private publishing business were advanced late relatively in Korea. Book-broker is one of the charge who has an affect on publishing business, book distribution and reading culture in the internal affairs of Society.