The Power of Print in Modern China : : Intellectuals and Industrial Publishing from the End of Empire to Maoist State Socialism / / Robert Culp.
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, referen...
Saved in:
| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019 |
|---|---|
| VerfasserIn: | |
| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
|
| Online Access: | |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 15 b&w illustrations |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- PART ONE. Recruiting Talent, Mobilizing Labor
- I. Becoming Editors: Late Qing Literati's Scholarly Lives and Cultural Production
- II. Universities or Factories? Academics, Petty Intellectuals, and the Industrialization of Mental Labor
- Part I Epilogue: War, Revolution, Hiatus
- PART TWO. Creating Culture
- III. Transforming Word and Concept Through Textbooks and Dictionaries
- IV. Repackaging the Past: Reproducing Classics Through Industrial Publishing
- V. Introducing New Worlds of Knowledge: Series Publications and the Transformation of China's Knowledge Culture
- PART THREE. Legacies of Industrialized Cultural Production
- VI. Print Industrialism and State Socialism: Public- Private Joint Management and Divisions of Labor in the Early PRC Publishing Industry
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index