Gutenberg in Shanghai: Chinese Print Capitalism, 1876-1937UBC Press, 2004 - 391 頁 Annotation 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 social, political, and economic influences, this technological and cultural revolution saw woodblock printing replaced with Western mechanical processes. This book, which relies on documents previously unavailable to both Western and Chinese researchers, demonstrates how Western technology and evolving traditional values resulted in the birth of a unique form of print capitalism whose influence on Chinese culture was far-reaching and irreversible. Its conclusion contests scholarly arguments that view China's technological development as slowed by culture, or that interpret Chinese modernity as mere cultural continuity. A vital reevaluation of Chinese modernity, Gutenberg in Shanghai will app. |
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Gutenbergs Descendants Transferring Industrialized Printing Technology to China 18071930 | 25 |
JanusFaced Pioneers The Golden Age of Shanghais Lithographic PrinterPublishers 18761905 | 88 |
Sooty Sons of Vulcan Forging Shanghais Printing Machinery 18951937 | 128 |
The Hub of the Wheel Commerce Technology and Organizational Innovation in Shanghais NewStyle Publishing World 1876c 1911 | 161 |
The Three Legs of the Tripod Commercial Press Zhonghua Books and World Books 191237 | 203 |
Conclusion | 257 |
A BirdsEye View of 1930s Shanghais Fuzhou RoadWenhuajie District | 280 |
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第 v 頁 - When You are Old" When you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep; How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true, But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face...
第 9 頁 - The tool or working-machine is that part of the machinery with which the industrial revolution of the 18th century started. And to this day it constantly serves as such a starting point, whenever a handicraft, or a manufacture, is turned into an industry carried on by machinery.