Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Preface ix
5. Introduction 1
6. Domesticating an Alien Medium: Incorporating the Western-style Newspaper into the Chinese Public Sphere 13
7. Useful Knowledge and Appropriate Communication: The Field of Journalistic Production in Late Nineteenth Century China 47
8. Joining the Global Imaginaire: The Shanghai Illustrated Newspaper Dianshizhai huabao 105
9. New Wine in Old Bottles? Making and Reading an Illustrated Magazine from Late Nineteenth-Century Shanghai 175
10. Shanghai Leisure, Print Entertainment, and the Tabloids, xiaobao 小報 201
11. Contributors 235
12. Index 237