{"product_id":"the-stone-and-the-wireless-shaoling-ma-9781478011477","title":"The Stone and the Wireless: Mediating China, 1861-1906","description":"In the final decades of the Manchu Qing dynasty in China, technologies such as the phonograph, telephone, telegraph, and photography were both new and foreign. In \u003ci\u003eThe Stone and the Wireless\u003c\/i\u003e Shaoling Ma analyzes diplomatic diaries, early science fiction, feminist poetry, photography, telegrams, and other archival texts, and shows how writers, intellectuals, reformers, and revolutionaries theorized what media does despite lacking a vocabulary to do so. Media defines the dynamics between technologies and their social or cultural forms, between devices or communicative processes and their representations in texts and images. More than simply reexamining late Qing China's political upheavals and modernizing energies through the lens of media, Ma shows that a new culture of mediation was helping to shape the very distinctions between politics, gender dynamics, economics, and science and technology. Ma contends that mediation lies not only at the heart of Chinese media history but of media history writ large.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Shaoling Ma\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1478011475\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781478011477\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/11\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.92lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.65d","brand":"Shaoling Ma","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43943073480959,"sku":"9781478011477","price":28.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_294b9ad7-96dd-4867-9bee-eccbdf24132b.jpg?v=1681496062","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-stone-and-the-wireless-shaoling-ma-9781478011477","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}