Becoming editors: late Qing literatis scholarly lives and cultural production -- Universities or factories academics, petty intellectuals, and the industrialization of mental labor -- Transforming word and concept through textbooks and dictionaries -- Repackaging the past: reproducing classics through industrial publishing -- Introducing new worlds of knowledge: series publications and the transformation of China's knowledge culture -- Print industrialism and state socialism: public-private joint management and divisions of labor in the early PRC publishing industry -- Negotiated cultural production in the pedagogical state.
Summary
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.
Note
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 18, 2019).