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Gutenberg in Shanghai : Chinese print capitalism, 1876-1937

Reed, Christopher A.

2004,2007,2003

Overview

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.

• Publisher: UBC Press,University of British Columbia Press
• Subject: Asia / Book industries and trade -- China -- Shanghai -- History -- 19th century / Book industries and trade -- China -- Shanghai -- History -- 20th century / China / HISTORY / Printing / Printing industry -- China -- Shanghai -- History -- 19th century / Printing industry -- China -- Shanghai -- History -- 20th century / Publishers and publishing / Publishers and publishing -- China -- Shanghai -- History -- 19th century / Publishers and publishing -- China -- Shanghai -- History -- 20th century / Shanghai / Shanghai (China) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century / Shanghai (China) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
• ISBN: 0774810416, 9780774810401, 9780774810418, 0774810408