By focusing on trends and persons involved in the modernization of China’s publishing industry, this dissertation seeks to answer the question of how Shanghai’s modern Chinese printers and publishers took advantage of a preexisting book market and created conditions that made this city a national center of intellectual life in the decades leading up to the Anti-Japanese War (1937-45).
Gutenberg in Shanghai: Mechanized Printing, Modern Publishing, and their Effects on the City, 1876-1937
Christopher Alexander Reed