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

By Rudolf G. Wagner

Book information

Publisher
State University of New York Press
Year
2008
ISBN
0791471187, 9780791471180, 0791471179, 9780791471173, 9781429499811
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5113376 bytes)
Series
SUNY Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
Pages
249\262
Topic
History
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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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