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

Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 440 pages) : illustrations Series Sinica Leidensia, 0169-9563 ; v. 97 Sinica Leidensia ; v. 97 Contents Commerical 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 Summary These essays examine the transformation of Chinese print culture over the past two centuries during which new technologies, intellectual change, and sociopolitical upheavals expanded reading audiences, spawned new genres of print, and reshaped the relationship between publishing and the state Notes " ... originated in an international conference on modern Chinese print culture at the Ohio State University held from November 3 to 7, 2004"--Acknowledgements Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-417) and index Notes Print version record Subject Publishers and publishing -- China -- History -- 19th century Publishers and publishing -- China -- History -- 20th century Printing -- China -- History -- 19th century Printing -- China -- History -- 20th century Books and reading -- China -- History Literature publishing -- China -- History Periodicals -- Publishing -- China -- History Internet publishing -- China Publishers and publishing -- Social aspects -- China -- History Publishers and publishing -- Political aspects -- China -- History LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Publishing. Books and reading Internet publishing Literature publishing Periodicals -- Publishing Printing Publishers and publishing Publishers and publishing -- Political aspects Publishers and publishing -- Social aspects China Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Brokaw, Cynthia Joanne Reed, Christopher A. (Christopher Alexander), 1954- LC no. 2010029377 ISBN 9789004216648 9004216642

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