Awards

• Commended for Delong Book Prize, Society for the History of Authorship 2005 (United States)
• Winner of Book Prize - Humanities, International Convention of Asian Scholars 2005 (Netherlands)

Overview

In the mid-1910s, what historians call the ""Golden Age ofChinese Capitalism"" began, accompanied by a technologicaltransformation that included the drastic expansion of China’s""Gutenberg revolution."" Gutenberg in Shanghaiexamines this process. It finds the origins of that revolution in thecountry’s printing industries of the late imperial period andanalyzes their subsequent development in the Republican era. This book, which relies on documents previously unavailable to bothWestern and Chinese researchers, demonstrates how Western technologyand evolving traditional values resulted in the birth of a unique formof print capitalism whose influence on Chinese culture was far-reachingand irreversible. Its conclusion contests scholarly arguments that viewChina’s technological development as slowed by culture, or thatinterpret Chinese modernity as mere cultural continuity. A vital reevaluation of Chinese modernity, Gutenberg inShanghai will be enthusiastically received by scholars of Chinesehistory and by specialists in cultural studies, political science,sociology, the history of the book, and the anthropology of science andtechnology.

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9780774810401

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The details in this book stand testimony to Yeh's research skills and energy..This extensively researched book, which is studded with intriguing factual information, moves single-mindedly toward an emphatic celebration of Shanghai as a culturally and socially open space in an imagined past, when women ran free, men were admiring and non-judgmental, and romantic love was both occupational and glamorous. --Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies

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Christopher A. Reed is a member of the HistoryDepartment at The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.

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