2 Janus-Faced Pioneers: The Golden Age of Shanghai’s Lithographic Printer-Publishers, 1876–1905

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 3
6. Gutenberg’s Descendants: Transferring Industrialized Printing Technology to China, 1807–1930 25
7. Janus-Faced Pioneers: The Golden Age of Shanghai’s Lithographic Printer-Publishers, 1876–1905 88
8. “Sooty Sons of Vulcan”: Forging Shanghai’s Printing Machinery, 1895–1937 128
9. “The Hub of the Wheel”: Commerce, Technology, and Organizational Innovation in Shanghai’s New-Style Publishing World, 1876–c. 1911 161
10. “The Three Legs of the Tripod”: Commercial Press, Zhonghua Books, and World Books, 1912–37 203
11. Conclusion 257
12. A Bird’s-Eye View of 1930s Shanghai’s Fuzhou Road/Wenhuajie District 280
13. Glossary of Chinese Terms, Titles, and Names 289
14. Notes 297
15. Selected Asian-Language Bibliography 360
16. Selected Western-Language Bibliography 367
17. Index 379
18. Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute 393