Joining the global public : word, image, and city in early Chinese newspapers, 1870-1910 / edited by Rudolf G. Wagner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wagner, Rudolf G.

Series:

SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture

Language:

Chinese

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese newspapers--China--History.

Chinese newspapers.

Newspaper publishing--China.

Newspaper publishing.

History.

China.

China--History--1861-1912.

Physical Description:

ix, 249 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Word, image, and city in early Chinese newspapers, 1870-1910

Place of Publication:

Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2007]

Summary:

Joining the Global Public examines early Chinese-language newspapers and analyzes their impact on China's modernization. Exploring a range of media such as regular dailies, illustrated weeklies, and entertainment papers, contributors look at factors that influenced the nature of these publications, including foreign models, foreign managers, and a first generation of Chinese journalists, editorialists, and "newspainters." With analyses demonstrating how the growth of popular media would enable China to join the global public, contributors also examine the impact of inserting an alien medium-a newspaper-into a Chinese universe and note the spread of new attitudes and values as entertainment papers filled the space of a newly created urban leisure. A superb and pioneering documentation of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Chinese-language media, Joining the Global Public serves as an introduction to this important yet little-studied part of China's modernization.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Domesticating an Alien Medium: Incorporating the Western-style Newspaper into the Chinese Public Sphere / Barbara Mittler 13

Chapter 2 Useful Knowledge and Appropriate Communication: The Field Journalistic Production in Late Nineteenth-Century China / Natascha Gentz 47

Chapter 3 Joining the Global Imaginaire: The Shanghai Illustrated Newspaper Dianshizhai huabao / Rudolf G. Wagner 105

Chapter 4 New Wine in Old Bottles? Making and Reading an Illustrated Magazine from Late Nineteenth-Century Shanghai / Nanny Kim 175

Chapter 5 Shanghai Leisure, Print Entertainment, and the Tabloids, xiaobao [Characters not reproducible] / Catherine Vance Yeh 201.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0791471179

9780791471173

OCLC:

70250596