Preliminary Material
Pages: i–xiii
From Woodblocks to the Internet: Chinese Printing, Publishing, and Literary Fields in Transition, circa 1800 to 2008
By: Christopher A. Reed
Pages: 1–35
Commercial Woodblock Publishing in the Qing (1644–1911) and the Transition to Modern Print Technology
By: Cynthia Brokaw
Pages: 37–58
Modernization without Mechanization: The Changing Shape of Fiction on the Eve of the Opium War
By: Ellen Widmer
Pages: 59–77
Messenger of the Sacred Heart: Li Wenyu (1840–1911), and the Jesuit Periodical Press in Late Qing Shanghai
By: Joachim Kurtz
Pages: 79–109
The Uses of Genres in the Chinese Press from the Late Qing to the Early Republican Period
By: Andrea Janku
Pages: 111–157
Printing the Sound of Cosmopolitan Beijing: Dialect Accents in Nineteenth-Century Martial Arts Fiction
By: Paize Keulemans
Pages: 159–184
Spreading the Dharma with the Mechanized Press: New Buddhist Print Cultures in the Modern Chinese Print Revolution, 1866–1949
By: Jan Kiely
Pages: 185–210
Culture, Commerce, and Connections: The Inner Dynamics of New Culture Publishing in the Post-May Fourth Period
By: Ling Shiao
Pages: 211–247
Reading and Writing Zhejiang Youth: Local Textual Economies and Cultural Production in Republican Jiangnan
By: Robert Culp
Pages: 249–274
Advancing the (Gutenberg) Revolution: The Origins and Development of Chinese Print Communism, 1921–1947
By: Christopher A. Reed
Pages: 275–311
Consuming Secrets: China’s New Print Culture at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century
By: Daria Berg
Pages: 313–332
Chinese Internet Literature and the Changing Field of Print Culture
By: Guobin Yang
Pages: 333–351
Resistance is Futile: Control and Censorship of the Internet in China
By: Gudrun Wacker
Pages: 353–381
Comprehensive Bibliography
Pages: 383–417
Index
Pages: 419–440