Power of Print in Modern China - Intellectuals Industrial Publishing From End of Empire to Maoist

Robert Culp explores the world of commercial publishing to offer a new perspective on modern Chinäs cultural transformations. Culp examines Chinäs largest and most influential publishing companies during the late Qing and Republican periods and into the early years of the People¿s Republic.

List of contents

List of Figures
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I. Recruiting Talent, Mobilizing Labor
1. Becoming Editors: Late Qing Literati’s Scholarly Lives and Cultural Production
2. Universities or Factories? Academics, Petty Intellectuals, and the Industrialization of Mental Labor
Part I Epilogue: War, Revolution, Hiatus
Part II. Creating Culture
3. Transforming Word and Concept Through Textbooks and Dictionaries
4. Repackaging the Past: Reproducing Classics Through Industrial Publishing
5. Introducing New Worlds of Knowledge: Series Publications and the Transformation of China’s Knowledge Culture
Part III. Legacies of Industrialized Cultural Production
6. Print Industrialism and State Socialism: Public-Private Joint Management and Divisions of Labor in the Early PRC Publishing Industry
7. Negotiated Cultural Production in the Pedagogical State
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Robert Culp is associate professor of history and Asian studies at Bard College. His books include Articulating Citizenship: Civic Education and Student Politics in Southeastern China, 1912–1940 (2007).

Summary

Robert Culp explores the world of commercial publishing to offer a new perspective on modern China’s cultural transformations. Culp examines China’s largest and most influential publishing companies during the late Qing and Republican periods and into the early years of the People’s Republic.

Additional text

[A] lively account.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Culp, Culp Robert
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2019
• EAN: 9780231184168
• ISBN: 978-0-231-18416-8
• No. of pages: 392
• Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University; Studies of the Weatherhead Eas; Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; China, HISTORY / Social History, HISTORY / Asia / China, Asian History, Publishing industry & book trade, Publishing and book trade, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General, China; history; publishing