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Contents List of Illustrations vii Preface ix Introduction 1 Rudolf G. Wagner CHAPTER 1 Domesticating an Alien Medium: Incorporating the Western-style Newspaper into the Chinese Public Sphere 13 Barbara Mittler CHAPTER 2 Useful Knowledge and Appropriate Communication: The Field Journalistic Production in Late Nineteenth-Century China 47 Natascha Gentz CHAPTER 3 Joining the Global Imaginaire: The Shanghai Illustrated Newspaper Dianshizhai huabao 105 Rudolf G. Wagner CHAPTER 4 New Wine in Old Bottles? Making and Reading an Illustrated Magazine from Late Nineteenth-Century Shanghai 175 Nanny Kim v CHAPTER 5 Shanghai Leisure, Print Entertainment, and the Tabloids, xiaobao 小報 201 Catherine Vance Yeh List of Contributors 235 Index 237 vi CONTENTS ...

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