Gutenberg in Shanghai: Chinese Print Capitalism, 1876-1937 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780774810401)

Relying on documents previously unavailable to both Western and Chinese researchers, this history demonstrates how Western technology and evolving traditional values resulted in the birth of a unique form of print capitalism that would have a far-reaching and irreversible influence on Chinese culture. In the mid-1910s, what historians call the "Golden Age of Chinese Capitalism" began, accompanied by a technological transformation that included the drastic expansion of China's "Gutenberg revolution." This is a vital reevaluation of Chinese modernity that refutes views that China's technological development was slowed by culture or that Chinese modernity was mere cultural continuity.

Author: Christopher A. Reed
ISBN-10: 0774810408
ISBN-13: 9780774810401
Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
Language: English
Published: 03/25/2004
Pages: 408
Format: Hardcover