Print, profit, and perception : ideas, information and knowledge in Chinese societies, 1895-1949 / edited by Pei-yin Lin and Weipin Tsai.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-265) and index.

Introduction / Pei-yin LIN & Weipin TSAI -- Cultural connections in a new global space : Li Shizeng and the Chinese Francophile Project in the early twentieth century / Paul J. BAILEY -- Health and hygiene in late Qing China as seen through the eyes of Japanese travelers / Che-chia CHANG -- Modernity through experimentation : Lu Xun and the modern Chinese woodcut movement / Elizabeth EMRICH -- Technology, markets, and social change : print capitalism in early twentieth-century China / Tze-ki HON -- Medical advertising and cultural translation : the case of Shenbao in early twentieth-century China / Max K.W. HUANG -- Planet in print : the scientific imagination in Zheng Kunwu's fiction during Taiwan's colonial period / Mei-e HUANG -- Shaping perception of the Second World War : a study of textbooks in Taiwan in the 1940s / Shi-chi Mike LAN -- Envisioning the reading public : profit motives of a Chinese-language tabloid in wartime Taiwan / Pei-yin LIN -- The first casualty : truth, lies and commercial opportunism in Chinese newspapers during the First Sino-Japanese War / Weipin TSAI.

Print, Profit, and Perception examines the dramatic knowledge expansion and dynamic cross-cultural exchanges occurring in China and Taiwan from 1895 to 1949. The nine chapters, heavily case-studied, collectively address the co-existence of globalization and localization processes in the period.

In English.

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