In this Book
- Joining the Global Public: Word, Image, and City in Early Chinese Newspapers, 1870-1910
- Book
- 2007
- Published by: State University of New York Press
summary
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.
Table of Contents
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- JOINING THE GLOBAL PUBLIC
- pp. iii-iv
- List of Illustrations
- pp. vii-viii
- Introduction
- pp. 1-12
- Contributors
- pp. 235-236
Additional Information
ISBN
9780791479988
DOI
MARC Record
OCLC
173350735
Pages
257
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No