This book traces the emergence of the modern Chinese press from its origins in the western
Christian missionary press in the late nineteenth century. It shows how the western …

Provoked by Marshal McLuhan, European historians have been arguing since the 1960s
about the press as an agent of historical change-particularly in reference to the French …

The existence or emergence of a" public sphere" in China in the 19t" century has been
rather controversially debated in the field of Chinese studies during the last decade. In his …

China became subject to various Western influences in the nineteenth century. Conspicuous
in the realm of technology was the transformation of printing from xylography to Western …

" This book is the definitive study of imperial Chinese local gazetteers, one of the most
important sources for premodern Chinese studies. Methodologically innovative, it represents …

From a modern perspective, journalism is highly relevant to modern society, along with the
emergence of mass printing system and professionalisation. This book, however, expands …

Late Qing China witnessed a revolution in print journalism. Modern newspapers and
magazines written for Chinese audiences first appeared in the 1850s and 1860s in Hong …

In this major new collection, an international team of scholars examine the relationship
between the Chinese women's periodical press and global modernity in the late nineteenth …

2. Robert Culp, Articulating Citizenship: Civic Education and Student Politics in
Southeastern China, 1912–1940 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2007) …

In this learned, yet readable, book, Joseph McDermott introduces the history of the book in
China in the late imperial period from 1000 to 1800. He assumes little knowledge of Chinese …