The newspaper has been a key element in China's modernization. A large body of literature
on the history of China's modern press, works of varying degrees of accuracy and analytical …

Understanding Chinese publishing history during the period of the People's Republic is not
only essential for a full understanding of China's publishing industry, but it also helps us …

Print culture in imperial China spans over twelve hundred years, from the late 7th century ce
to the end of the Qing Dynasty in 1911. During this long period, mechanical reproduction of …

This dissertation explores the production and circulation of legal knowledge, and the role of
legal information in the formation of early modern Chinese legal culture. It combines the …

This volume provides the first comparative survey of the relations between the two most
active book worlds in Eurasia between 1450 and 1850. Prominent scholars in book history …

The history of book culture and printing in East Asia shows how different cultures that used
the same manuscript and print techniques to produce many of the same books in the same …

This paper addresses the history and historiography of sexual knowledge during the May
Fourth New Culture Movement (ca. 1910s-1930s) in China. Chinese intellectuals engaged …

Shanghai's ascendance to China's premier center of trade and commerce was both
conditioned and accompanied by its ascendance to the Chinese capital of entertainment. By …

Art advertisements found in the classifieds section of the Shanghai newspaper Shenbao
offer rich documentation of the nineteenth-century Shanghai art world's producers, products …

Introduction cinema, television, and other nontextual modes of communication
notwithstanding, our world today still reverberates in astonishing ways with the influence of …