Gutenberg in Shanghai: Chinese Print Capitalism, 1876-1937

by Christopher A. Reed

Book Overview

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 is a brilliant examination of 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. Under diverse...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082482833X
• ISBN13: 9780824828332
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher