The Power of Print in Modern China: Intellectuals and Industrial Publishing from the End of Empire to Maoist State Socialism

by Robert Culp

Amid early twentieth-century China's epochal shifts, a vital and prolific commercial publishing industry emerged. Recruiting late Qing literati, foreign-trained academics, and recent graduates of the modernized school system to work as authors and editors, publishers produced textbooks, reference books, book series, and reprints of classical texts in large quantities at a significant profit. Work for major publishers provided a living to many Chinese...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231184166
• ISBN13: 9780231184168
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.1"