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Amid early twentieth-century China's epochal shifts, a vital and prolific commercial publishing industry emerged. Recruiting late Qing literati, foreign-trained academics, and recent graduates of the modernized school system to work as authors and editors, publishers produced textbooks, reference books, book series, and reprints of classical texts in large quantities at a significant profit. Work for major publishers provided a living to many Chinese intellectuals and offered them a platform to transform Chinese cultural life.In The Power of Print in Modern China, Robert Culp explores the world of commercial publishing to offer a new perspective on modern China's cultural transformations. Culp examines China's largest and most influential publishing companies-Commercial Press, Zhonghua Book Company, and World Book Company-during the late Qing and Republican periods and into the early years of the People's Republic. He reconstructs editors' cultural activities and work lives as a lens onto the role of intellectuals in cultural change. Examining the distinct Chinese modes of industrial publishing, Culp explains the emergence of the modern Chinese intellectual through commercial and industrial processes rather than through political revolution and social movements. An original account of Chinese intellectual and cultural history as well as global book history, The Power of Print in Modern China offers new perspectives on the production of new forms of knowledge and culture in the twentieth century.

Publishers and publishing --- Book publishing --- Books --- Book industries and trade --- Booksellers and bookselling --- History --- Publishing --- Shang wu yin shu guan --- Shang wu yin shu kuan --- Shōmu Inshokan --- 商務印書館 --- 商务印书馆 --- 商務印書舘 --- Commercial Press --- S01/0600 --- S02/0215 --- China: Bibliography and reference--Books, printing, editing and paper --- China: General works--Intellectuals: 1840 -1949 --- Zhonghua shu ju --- Shi jie shu ju (Shanghai, China) --- Chung-hua shu chü --- Zhong hua shu ju --- 中华书局 --- 中華書局 --- Shih chieh shu chü (Shanghai, China) --- Shanghai shi jie shu ju --- 世界书局 (Shanghai, China) --- 世界書局 (上海中國) --- 世界書局 (上海, China) --- 世界書局 (Shanghai, China) --- China --- Intellectual life