Joining the Global Public
Douban
Word, Image, and City in Early Chinese Newspapers, 1870-1910
Wagner, Rudolf G.
Overview
Explores the early Chinese press, which emerged in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and its impact on China’s modernization.
contents
1. Domesticating an Alien Medium: Incorporating the Western-style Newspaper into the Chinese Public Sphere
2. Useful Knowledge and Appropriate Communication: The Field of Journalistic Production in Late Nineteenth Century China
3. Joining the Global Imaginaire: The Shanghai Illustrated Newspaper Dianshizhai huabao
4. New Wine in Old Bottles? Making and Reading an Illustrated Magazine from Late Nineteenth-Century Shanghai
5. Shanghai Leisure, Print Entertainment, and the Tabloids, xiaobao
