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Gutenberg in Shanghai : Chinese print capitalism, 1876-1937
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ISBN: 0774810408 9780774810401 0774810416 9780774810418 9780774851862 0774851864 128313117X 9781283131179 9786613131171 6613131172 Year: 2004 Publisher: Vancouver : UBC Press,

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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." Gutenberg in Shanghai examines this process. It finds the origins of that revolution in the country's printing industries of the late imperial period and analyzes their subsequent development in the Republican era. This book, which relies on documents previously unavailable to both Western and Chinese researchers, demonstrates how Western technology and evolving traditional values resulted in the birth of a unique form of print capitalism whose influence on Chinese culture was far-reaching and irreversible. Its conclusion contests scholarly arguments that view China's technological development as slowed by culture, or that interpret Chinese modernity as mere cultural continuity. A vital reevaluation of Chinese modernity, Gutenberg in Shanghai will be enthusiastically received by scholars of Chinese history and by specialists in cultural studies, political science, sociology, the history of the book, and the anthropology of science and technology.


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'Photos of the Gods' : the printed image and political struggle in India
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ISBN: 1282264923 9786612264924 1861896115 Year: 2004 Publisher: London : Reaktion,

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Drawing on years of archival research, interviews with artists and publishers, and the ethnographic study of their rural consumers, Christopher Pinney traces the intimate connections between the production and consumption of mass-produced images in India and the struggle against colonial rule.

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