Joining the Global Public: Word, Image, and City in Early Chinese Newspapers, 1870-1910 (Suny Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture). Rudolf G. Wagner

Joining the Global Public: Word, Image, and City in Early Chinese Newspapers, 1870-1910 (Suny Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture)



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Joining the Global Public: Word, Image, and City in Early Chinese Newspapers, 1870-1910 (Suny Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture) Rudolf G. Wagner. pdf ebook Publisher: Language: English Page: 249 ISBN: 0791471179, 9781429499811

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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.

"This book is extraordinarily interesting to read and the most fascinating work on Chinese history I have read in quite some time. Contributors keep coming back to the much-discussed issue of a Chinese `public sphere,' but avoid the mechanical consideration of this question that dominates the recent literature. Instead, we get a very wide range of insights into matters of cultural, political, and social change, as signified in the pages of the journals under study." -- William T. Rowe, author of Crimson Rain: Seven Centuries of Violence in a Chinese County

Contributors include Natascha Gentz, Nanny Kim, Barbara Mittler, Rudolf G. Wagner, and Catherine Yeh.

About the Author

Rudolf G. Wagner is Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Heidelberg and the author or editor of many books, including A Chinese Reading of the Daodejing: Wang Bi's Commentary on the Laozi with Critical Text and Translation, also published by SUNY Press.