Gutenberg in Shanghai
Chinese Print Capitalism, 1876-1937
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780774810401
- Publish Date
- Mar 2004
- List Price
- $95.00
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780774810418
- Publish Date
- Jan 2005
- List Price
- $34.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780774841214
- Publish Date
- Nov 2011
- List Price
- $34.95
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Description
Relying on documents previously unavailable to both Western and Chinese researchers, this history demonstrates how Western technology and evolving traditional values resulted in the birth of a unique form of print capitalism that would have a far-reaching and irreversible influence on Chinese culture. In the mid-1910s, what historians call the "Golden Age of Chinese Capitalism" began, accompanied by a technological transformation that included the drastic expansion of China’s "Gutenberg revolution." This is a vital reevaluation of Chinese modernity that refutes views that China's technological development was slowed by culture or that Chinese modernity was mere cultural continuity.
About the author
Awards
- Commended, Delong Book Prize, Society for the History of Authorship
- Winner, Book Prize - Humanities, International Convention of Asian Scholars
Contributor Notes
Christopher A. Reed is a member of the History Department at The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.