The power of print in modern China : intellectuals and industrial publishing from the end of empire...
The power of print in modern China : intellectuals and industrial publishing from the end of empire...
The power of print in modern China : intellectuals and industrial publishing from the end of empire to Maoist state socialism / Robert Culp.
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New York : Columbia University Press, [2019]
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G 2020/1336
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English
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xv, 371 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
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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 thro...
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New York : Columbia University Press, [2019]
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New York (State)
Date Published
[2019]
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Amid early twentieth-century China's epochal shifts, a vital and prolific commercial publishing industry emerged. Recruiting late Qing literati, foreign-trained academics, and recent graduates of the modernized school system to work as authors and editors, publishers produced textbooks, reference books, book series, and reprints of classical texts...
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The power of print in modern China : intellectuals and industrial publishing from the end of empire to Maoist state socialism / Robert Culp.
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Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2020/1336
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74VKaDLZX65O
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaDLZX65O
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ISBN
9780231184168 hardcover ; alkaline paper
0231184166 hardcover ; alkaline paper
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070.509510904
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991024298215002626
