Gutenberg in Shanghai: Chinese Print Capitalism, 1867-1937.(Book Review)

Canadian Journal of History;  August 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Gutenberg in Shanghai: Chinese Print Capitalism, 1867-1937, by Christopher A. Reed...in such as way as to give rise to a print capitalism. Before the advent of Western technology...and intellectual life. The notion of print capitalism has been made popular in recent years...

Gutenberg in Shanghai: Chinese Print Capitalism, 1876-1937

The China Journal;  January 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Gutenberg in Shanghai: Chinese Print Capitalism, 1876-1937, by Christopher A. Reed. Vancouver...Reed has written the first book on Chinese print capitalism. Engaged and important, Gutenberg in Shanghai...it is impossible to understand the rise of print capitalism in China without due ...

treaty port

Webster's NewWorld Dictionary;      39 words ...Webster's NewWorld Dictionary 01-01-1988 treaty port a port that must be kept open for foreign trade according to the terms of a treaty, as, formerly, any of certain ports in China, Japan, or Korea Copyright 1994, 1991, 1988 Simon & Schuster, Inc.

A foreign life in a foreign land Historical Notes

The Independent - London;  June 20, 1998 ;     579 words ......from the volumes of memoirs written by treaty port inhabitants. These invariably touch...or "Missee's". Daily life for some treaty port residents appeared to be one long battle...reduced all recorded conversations in treaty port memoirs to a rather idiotic level. I...

A printing devil, a Scottish mummy, and an Edinburgh book of the dead:...

Studies in Romanticism;  June 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ......that he occupies, where expanding print capitalism transforms obscure authors into admirable...to English colonization by way of print capitalism, such as has been detailed by Leith...the novel with these imperial and print capitalism forces, in order to attain a satiric...

Christopher A. Reed, Gutenburg in Shanghai. Chinese Print Capitalism,...

Labour/Le Travail;  March 22, 2007 ;     105 words ...Christopher A. Reed, Gutenburg in Shanghai. Chinese Print Capitalism, 1856-1937 (Vancouver: UBC Press 2004) REED ARGUES that traditional Chinese print culture and commerce played a role in the print...

Understanding Media in 1805: Audiovisual Hallucination in The Lay of the...

Studies in Romanticism;  March 22, 2001 ;     700+ words ......culminates with the development in the eighteenth century of print capitalism as a truly massive medium. Influential arguments advanced...claims that poetry could not survive its marginalization by print capitalism; the brief surge of sales in poetry during the first decades...

(book review)

Early American Literature;  January 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......former (mostly commonwealth) colonies that emerged (with print capitalism) as nations in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth...has convincingly argued) the vernacularizing thrust of print capitalism gave rise to the birth of revolutionary then national consciousness...

China Dreams: Growing Up Jewish in Tientsin

Jewish Exponent;  April 24, 1997 ;     679 words ......the Russian civil wars of the '20s and found refuge in the Treaty Port close to Peking. Maynard was brought up more by her amah than...on the girl who lived her insular life in the cocoon of the Treaty Port. Later she was made aware of some of the hardships and even...

A Culture Builder

Literary Review of Canada;  December 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......He plied his trade in the city we now know as Tianjing, a treaty port. The term designated places in a powerless China where the...by their own laws and institutions. The very concept of a treaty port, restricting China's sovereignty over its own territory, discloses...

The mercantile bard: commerce and conflict in Pope.

Studies in the Literary Imagination;  March 22, 2005 ;     700+ words ......entrepreneurial flair kept him at the frontiers of design and distribution techniques in a number of ways at a time when print capitalism was changing gear and expanding exponentially. Although he was a dedicated loser in the field of politics proper, Pope...

"Pirated" transnational broadcasting: the consumption of Thai soap operas...

SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia;  April 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......shaping national imaginaries. While Anderson focuses on print capitalism as fomenting nationalism, this essay explores how the imagined...imagined communities of the eighteenth century, it was print capitalism which provided the new institutional space for the development...

IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO1904: Russia to Protect Corea

International Herald Tribune;  January 16, 2004 ;     96 words ......the following interesting statement: ''Russia will refuse, in the interests of peace, to agree to the opening of Wiju, as a treaty port, and will protect the Corean sovereignty at all costs. It is impossible to allow Japan to secure a preponderant influence...

Boyhood dreams; Memories of China.("The Ford of Heaven: A Childhood in...

The Economist (US);  February 4, 2006 ;     423 words ......Emperor of Heaven. The foreign powers who occupied it in 1860, in the wake of the second opium war, called it a concession or treaty port; the Chinese the ford of heaven . Foreigners in the treaty ports lived charmed, if claustrophobic lives, protected from the...

Shanghai's early lines deemed too 'eccentric'

China Daily;  April 18, 2007 ;     311 words ......China's first railway line was destroyed because it was deemed to be too eccentric. As one of the cities that opened as a treaty port in the 19th century, Shanghai witnessed the country's first railway, Wusong Railway line, built by the British in 1876. However...