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Gutenberg in Shanghai

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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.

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ISBN: 9780774810418
Publication date: 1st January 2005
Author: Christopher A Reed, Weatherhead East Asian Institute
Publisher: UBCPress an imprint of University of British Columbia Press
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 391 pages
Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University