Gutenberg in Shanghai
Subtitle: Chinese print capitalism, 1876-1937
By: Christopher A. Reed.
Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Honolulu, HI
Language: eng
Number of pages: 391
Subjects: Book industries and trade -- China -- Shanghai -- History -- 19th century; Book industries and trade -- China -- Shanghai -- History -- 20th century; Printing industry -- China -- Shanghai -- History -- 19th century; Printing industry -- China -- Shanghai -- History -- 20th century; Publishers and publishing -- China -- Shanghai -- History -- 19th century; Publishers and publishing -- China -- Shanghai -- History -- 20th century; Shanghai (China) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century; Shanghai (China) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Originally published: Vancouver, B.C. : UBC Press, c2003.
Table of contents: title: Gutenberg's descendants : transferring industrialized printing technology to China, 1807-1930; title: Janus-faced pioneers : the golden age of Shanghai's lithographic printer-publishers, 1876-1905; title: Sooty sons of Vulcan : forging Shanghai's printing machinery, 1895-1937; title: The hub of the wheel : commerce, technology, and organizational innovation in Shanghai's new-style publishing world, 1876-c. 1911; title: The three legs of the tripod : Commercial Press, Zhonghua Books, and World Books, 1912-37.