Print, Profit, and Perception: Ideas, Information and Knowledge in Chinese Societies, 1895–1949., edited by Pei-yin Lin and Weipin Tsai

Abstract

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION Pei-yin Lin & Weipin Tsai Chinese modernities revisited: globalization and localization Fluid modernity and ideas Print, profit and perceptions 1. CULTURAL CONNECTIONS IN A NEW GLOBAL SPACE: LI SHIZENG AND THE CHINESE FRANCOPHILE PROJECT IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY Paul J. Bailey Early years in France Sino-French cultural interaction Li Shizeng's philosophy of work-study Conclusion 2. HEALTH AND HYGIENE IN LATE QING CHINA AS SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF JAPANESE TRAVELERS Che-chia Chang Networks of travelers Categories of traveler First impressions: Dirty! Dirty! Dirty! Understanding the Japanese viewpoint Conclusion 3. MODERNITY THROUGH EXPERIMENTATION: LU XUN AND THE MODERN CHINESE WOODCUT MOVEMENT Elizabeth Emrich Alternative modernities and Lu Xun's Grabism Lu Xun in Shanghai and his Translations on Art Lu Xun and woodcut publications Humanism and social construction in woodblock prints Lu Xun and Woodcut Print Societies Conclusion 4. TECHNOLOGY, MARKETS, AND SOCIAL CHANGE: PRINT CAPITALISM IN EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY CHINA Tze-ki Hon Local initiatives and domestic factors in technology transfer Markets, circulation and profits National learning as cultural capital Professional geographers and public intellectuals Conclusion 5. MEDICAL ADVERTISING AND CULTURAL TRANSLATION: THE CASE OF SHENBAO IN EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY CHINA Max K. W. Huang Understanding the human body in early republican China Medical Advertising and Cultural Translation Conclusion 6. PLANET IN PRINT: THE SCIENTIFIC IMAGINATION IN ZHENG KUNWU'S FICTION DURING TAIWAN'S COLONIAL PERIOD Mei-e Huang From astronomical reports to fiction writing Scientific fantasy and humanistic reality Between science fiction and detective story Conclusion 7. SHAPING PERCEPTION OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR: A STUDY OF TEXTBOOKS IN TAIWAN IN THE 1940s Shi-chi Mike Lan Presentation of the War in Japanese colonial texts before 1945 The War in Chinese nationalist texts after 1945 Localizing the War in textbooks: Before and after 1945 Conclusion 8. ENVISIONING THE READING PUBLIC - PROFIT MOTIVES OF A CHINESE-LANGUAGE TABLOID IN WARTIME TAIWAN Pei-yin Lin Positioning the Chinese-language tabloids in colonial Taiwan Chinese literati-courtesan connections and Western exotica Appropriating and speculating about love From freedom of love to condemnation of unrestrained free love Alternative modernity and re-appropriation of love Conclusion 9. THE FIRST CASUALTY: TRUTH, LIES AND COMMERCIAL OPPORTUNISM IN CHINESE NEWSPAPERS DURING THE FIRST SINO-JAPANESE WAR Weipin Tsai War reporting in the West and in China in the second half of the nineteenth century Battle-ready and eager for the fight The war for readership In the newspapers' defense Conclusion BIBLIOGRAPHY