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 From Woodblocks to the Internet: Chinese Publishing and Print Culture in Transition, circa 1800 to 2008

Contents

• • Preliminary Material (i-xiv)   (546K)
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    • Contents
    • Acknowledgements
    • Contributors
    • Abbreviations
  • From Woodblocks To The Internet: Chinese Printing, Publishing, And Literary Fields In Transition, Circa 1800 To 2008 (1-36) by Christopher A. Reed   (578K)
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    • Introduction
    • Chinese Printing Technologies And Publishing In The Modern And Postmodern Periods
    • Print, Media, And Genre
    • State And Society In Printing And Publishing
    • Organization Of This Book
  • Commercial Woodblock Publishing In The Qing (1644–1911) And The Transition To Modern Print Technology (37-58) by Cynthia Brokaw   (546K)
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    • The Expansion Of Commercial Woodblock Publishing And Print Culture In The Qing
    • The Transition To Modern Print Culture
    • The Rise Of Shanghai And Woodblock Book Culture: Texts And Distribution Networks
    • Conclusion
  • Modernization Without Mechanization: The Changing Shape Of Fiction On The Eve Of The Opium War (59-78) by Ellen Widmer   (544K)
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    • Increased Production Of Fiction
    • Distribution Patterns
    • Internationalism
    • Engaging The Female Reader
    • Conclusion: On Fertile Ground
  • Messenger Of The Sacred Heart: LI Wenyu (1840–1911), And The Jesuit Periodical Press In Late Qing Shanghai (79-110) by Joachim Kurtz   (589K)
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    • The New Jesuit Mission At Zikawei
    • The Imprimerie De T’Ou-Sè-Wè
    • The Making Of A Chinese-Jesuit Journalist
    • Useful News For All
    • Balanced Discussions
    • Science To The Rescue
    • Messenger Of The Sacred Heart
    • Conclusion
  • The Uses Of Genres In The Chinese Press From The Late Qing To The Early Republican Period (111-158) by Andrea Janku   (2M)
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    • Introduction
    • A Pragmatic Theory Of Genre And Its Journalistic Transformations
    • The Authority Of The Lun
    • The Speed Of The Printing Press
    • New Genres And The Constitution Of Society
    • Conclusion
  • Printing The Sound Of Cosmopolitan Beijing: Dialect Accents In Nineteenth-Century Martial Arts Fiction (159-184) by Paize Keulemans   (2M)
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    • Printing Dialect In The Nineteenth-Century Novel
    • The Double Printing Of Regional Characters In The Beijing Novel
    • Between Oral Storytelling And Textual Erudition: Cross Talking In Wen Kang’s Tale Of Romance And Heroism
    • Conclusion: Modern Echoes
  • Spreading The Dharma With The Mechanized Press: New Buddhist Print Cultures In The Modern Chinese Print Revolution, 1866–1949 (185-210) by Jan Kiely   (603K)
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    • Yang Wenhui And “Buddhist Revival” Woodblock Sutra Carving
    • Buddhist Revival Publishers And Modern Urban Print Culture
    • Introductory Readers And A Buddhist Mass Readership
    • Conclusion
  • Culture, Commerce, And Connections: The Inner Dynamics Of New Culture Publishing In The Post-May Fourth Period (211-248) by Ling Shiao   (635K)
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    • The Cradle, The Nursery, And The Infant: A Story Of Symbiosis
    • The Search For Identity And Power
    • Politics, Profits, And Professions
    • Conclusion
    • Appendix: Leading New Presses Of The 1920s
  • Reading And Writing Zhejiang Youth: Local Textual Economies And Cultural Production In Republican Jiangnan (249-274) by Robert Culp   (548K)
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    • Technology, Capitalism, And Printing Services
    • Education Circles And Publishing
    • Communication And Cultural Politics
    • Conclusion
  • Advancing The (Gutenberg) Revolution: The Origins And Development Of Chinese Print Communism, 1921–1947 (275-312) by Christopher A. Reed   (644K)
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    • Introduction
    • Against The Grain: Communist Publishing In Print Capitalist Shanghai, 1921–27
    • Yan’An And The Birth Of Print Communism, 1937–47
    • Conclusion
  • Consuming Secrets: China’s New Print Culture At The Turn Of The Twenty-First Century (313-332) by Daria Berg   (530K)
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    • Introduction
    • The New Literature
    • Wei Hui And Shanghai Baby
    • Mian Mian And Candy
    • Muzi Mei’s Blog
    • Commercial Publishing
    • The Writer’s Income
    • The New Reading Audience
    • Conclusion
  • Chinese Internet Literature And The Changing Field Of Print Culture (333-352) by Guobin Yang   (539K)
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    • The Development Of Internet Literature In China
    • Internet Literature: A Product Of Changing Times
    • Internet Writers And Symbolic Struggles For Recognition
    • The Promotional Strategies Of Literary Web Sites
    • Conclusion: Internet Literature Transforms Print Culture
  • Resistance Is Futile: Control And Censorship Of The Internet In China (353-382) by Gudrun Wacker   (537K)
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    • Introduction
    • Internet, Nation-State, And Control
    • National Laws
    • Direct State Intervention: Blocking URLs, Crackdowns, And Arrests
    • Deterrence And Self-Censorship: State Vs. “Privatized” Or Commercialized Control
    • Counter strategies
    • Is Resistance Futile? A Preliminary Conclusion
  • Comprehensive Bibliography (383-418)   (922K)
  • Index (419-440)   (496K)