Joining the Global Public: Word, Image, and City in Early Chinese Newspapers, 1870-1910

Explores the early Chinese press, which emerged in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and its impact on China's modernization.

Joining the Global Public examines early Chinese-language newspapers and analyzes their impact on China's modernization. Exploring a range of media such as regular dailies, illustrated weeklies, and entertainment papers, contributors look at factors that influenced the nature of these publications, including foreign models, foreign managers, and a first generation of Chinese journalists, editorialists, and "newspainters." With analyses demonstrating how the growth of popular media would enable China to join the global public, contributors also examine the impact of inserting an alien medium-a newspaper-into a Chinese universe and note the spread of new attitudes and values as entertainment papers filled the space of a newly created urban leisure. A superb and pioneering documentation of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Chinese-language media, Joining the Global Public serves as an introduction to this important yet little-studied part of China's modernization.

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Joining the Global Public: Word, Image, and City in Early Chinese Newspapers, 1870-1910

Explores the early Chinese press, which emerged in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and its impact on China's modernization.

Joining the Global Public examines early Chinese-language newspapers and analyzes their impact on China's modernization. Exploring a range of media such as regular dailies, illustrated weeklies, and entertainment papers, contributors look at factors that influenced the nature of these publications, including foreign models, foreign managers, and a first generation of Chinese journalists, editorialists, and "newspainters." With analyses demonstrating how the growth of popular media would enable China to join the global public, contributors also examine the impact of inserting an alien medium-a newspaper-into a Chinese universe and note the spread of new attitudes and values as entertainment papers filled the space of a newly created urban leisure. A superb and pioneering documentation of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Chinese-language media, Joining the Global Public serves as an introduction to this important yet little-studied part of China's modernization.

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Joining the Global Public: Word, Image, and City in Early Chinese Newspapers, 1870-1910

Joining the Global Public: Word, Image, and City in Early Chinese Newspapers, 1870-1910

by Rudolf G. Wagner (Editor)
Joining the Global Public: Word, Image, and City in Early Chinese Newspapers, 1870-1910

Joining the Global Public: Word, Image, and City in Early Chinese Newspapers, 1870-1910

by Rudolf G. Wagner (Editor)

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Explores the early Chinese press, which emerged in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and its impact on China's modernization.

Joining the Global Public examines early Chinese-language newspapers and analyzes their impact on China's modernization. Exploring a range of media such as regular dailies, illustrated weeklies, and entertainment papers, contributors look at factors that influenced the nature of these publications, including foreign models, foreign managers, and a first generation of Chinese journalists, editorialists, and "newspainters." With analyses demonstrating how the growth of popular media would enable China to join the global public, contributors also examine the impact of inserting an alien medium-a newspaper-into a Chinese universe and note the spread of new attitudes and values as entertainment papers filled the space of a newly created urban leisure. A superb and pioneering documentation of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Chinese-language media, Joining the Global Public serves as an introduction to this important yet little-studied part of China's modernization.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780791479988
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Publication date: 02/01/2012
Series: SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 257
File size: 5 MB
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Rudolf G. Wagner is Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Heidelberg and the author or editor of many books, including A Chinese Reading of the Daodejing: Wang Bi's Commentary on the Laozi with Critical Text and Translation, also published by SUNY Press.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Preface

Introduction
Rudolf G. Wagner

1. Domesticating an Alien Medium: Incorporating the Western-style Newspaper into the Chinese Public Sphere
Barbara Mittler

2. Useful Knowledge and Appropriate Communication: The Field Journalistic Production in Late Nineteenth-Century China
Natascha Gentz

3. Joining the Global Imaginaire: The Shanghai Illustrated Newspaper Dianshizhai huabao
Rudolf G. Wagner

4. New Wine in Old Bottles? Making and Reading an Illustrated Magazine from Late Nineteenth-Century Shanghai
Nanny Kim

5. Shanghai Leisure, Print Entertainment, and the Tabloids, xiaobao
Catherine Vance Yeh

List of Contributors
Index

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