The Stone and the Wireless: Mediating China, 1861-1906

by Shaoling Ma

Book Overview

In the final decades of the Manchu Qing dynasty in China, technologies such as the phonograph, telephone, telegraph, and photography were both new and foreign. In The Stone and the Wireless Shaoling Ma analyzes diplomatic diaries, early science fiction, feminist poetry, photography, telegrams, and other archival texts, and shows how writers, intellectuals, reformers, and revolutionaries theorized what media does despite lacking a vocabulary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478011475
• ISBN13: 9781478011477
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"