Christopher A. Reed is a member of the History Department at The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.
摘要
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." Gutenberg in Shanghai examines this process. It finds the origins of that revolution in the country’s printing industries of the late imperial period and analyzes their subsequent development in the Republican era.
This book, which relies on documents previously unavailable to both Western and Chinese researchers, demonstrates how Western technology and evolving traditional values resulted in the birth of a unique form of print capitalism whose influence on Chinese culture was far-reaching and irreversible. Its conclusion contests scholarly arguments that view China’s technological development as slowed by culture, or that interpret Chinese modernity as mere cultural continuity.
A vital reevaluation of Chinese modernity, Gutenberg in Shanghai will be enthusiastically received by scholars of Chinese history and by specialists in cultural studies, political science, sociology, the history of the book, and the anthropology of science and technology.
目次
[Table of Contents]
Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Gutenberg’s Descendants: Transferring Industrialized Printing Technology to China, 1807-1930 2. Janus-Faced Pioneers: The Golden Age of Shanghai’s Lithographic Printer-Publishers, 1876-1905 3. "Sooty Sons of Vulcan": Forging Shanghai’s Printing Machinery, 1897-1937 4. "The Hub of the Wheel": Commerce, Technology, and Organizational Innovation in Shanghai’s New-Style Publishing World, 1876-c. 1911 5. "The Three Legs of the Tripod": Commercial Press, Zhonghua Books, and World Books, 1912-37 Conclusion Appendix: A Bird’s-Eye View of 1930s Shanghai’s Fuzhou Road/Wenhuajie District Glossary of Chinese Terms, Titles, and Names Notes Selected Asian-Language Bibliography Selected Western-Language Bibliography Index
