The Power of Print in Modern China
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Intellectuals and Industrial Publishing from the End of Empire to Maoist State Socialism
overview
Robert Culp explores the world of commercial publishing to offer a new perspective on modern China’s cultural transformations. Culp examines China’s largest and most influential publishing companies during the late Qing and Republican periods and into the early years of the People’s Republic.
contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I. Recruiting Talent, Mobilizing Labor
1. Becoming Editors: Late Qing Literati’s Scholarly Lives and Cultural Production
2. Universities or Factories? Academics, Petty Intellectuals, and the Industrialization of Mental Labor
Part I Epilogue: War, Revolution, Hiatus
Part II. Creating Culture
3. Transforming Word and Concept Through Textbooks and Dictionaries
4. Repackaging the Past: Reproducing Classics Through Industrial Publishing
5. Introducing New Worlds of Knowledge: Series Publications and the Transformation of China’s Knowledge Culture
Part III. Legacies of Industrialized Cultural Production
6. Print Industrialism and State Socialism: Public-Private Joint Management and Divisions of Labor in the Early PRC Publishing Industry
7. Negotiated Cultural Production in the Pedagogical State
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index