From woodblocks to the Internet [electronic resource] : Chinese publishing and print culture in transition, circa 1800 to 2008 / edited by Cynthia Brokaw and Christopher A. Reed.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brokaw, Cynthia Joanne.

Reed, Christopher A. (Christopher Alexander), 1954-

Series:

Sinica Leidensia 97.

Sinica Leidensia, 0169-9563 ; v. 97

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Books and reading--China--History.

Books and reading.

Internet publishing--China.

Internet publishing.

Literature publishing--China--History.

Literature publishing.

Periodicals--Publishing--China--History.

Periodicals.

Printing--China--History--19th century.

Printing.

Printing--China--History--20th century.

Publishers and publishing--Political aspects--China--History.

Publishers and publishing.

Publishers and publishing--Social aspects--China--History.

Publishers and publishing--China--History--19th century.

Publishers and publishing--China--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (454 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The thirteen essays in this volume narrate and analyze the reciprocal influences of technological, intellectual, and sociopolitical changes on the structure of modern China's book (and print) trade; more specifically, they treat the rise of new genres of print, changes in writing practices, the dissemination of ideas and texts (both paper and electronic), the organization of knowledge, and the relationship between the state and print culture. The essays range chronologically from the late eighteenth century to the present, an over two-century transition period that allows authors to draw comparisons between the largely woodblock print culture of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; the mechanized publishing of the late-nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries; and the global internet culture of today.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

From Woodblocks to the Internet: Chinese Printing, Publishing, and Literary Fields in Transition, circa 1800 to 2008 / Christopher A. Reed

Commercial Woodblock Publishing in the Qing (1644–1911) and the Transition to Modern Print Technology / Cynthia Brokaw

Modernization without Mechanization: The Changing Shape of Fiction on the Eve of the Opium War / Ellen Widmer

Messenger of the Sacred Heart: Li Wenyu (1840–1911), and the Jesuit Periodical Press in Late Qing Shanghai / Joachim Kurtz

The Uses of Genres in the Chinese Press from the Late Qing to the Early Republican Period / Andrea Janku

Printing the Sound of Cosmopolitan Beijing: Dialect Accents in Nineteenth-Century Martial Arts Fiction / Paize Keulemans

Spreading the Dharma with the Mechanized Press: New Buddhist Print Cultures in the Modern Chinese Print Revolution, 1866–1949 / Jan Kiely

Culture, Commerce, and Connections: The Inner Dynamics of New Culture Publishing in the Post-May Fourth Period / Ling Shiao

Reading and Writing Zhejiang Youth: Local Textual Economies and Cultural Production in Republican Jiangnan / Robert Culp

Advancing the (Gutenberg) Revolution: The Origins and Development of Chinese Print Communism, 1921–1947 / Christopher A. Reed

Consuming Secrets: China’s New Print Culture at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century / Daria Berg

Chinese Internet Literature and the Changing Field of Print Culture / Guobin Yang

Resistance is Futile: Control and Censorship of the Internet in China / Gudrun Wacker

Comprehensive Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

"... originated in an international conference on modern Chinese print culture at the Ohio State University held from November 3 to 7, 2004"--Acknowledgements.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [383]-417) and index.

ISBN:

1-283-85201-2

90-04-21664-2

OCLC:

813166425

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004216648 DOI