The Stone and the Wireless: Mediating China, 1861-1906 - Couverture souple

Ma, Shaoling

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1478011475 ISBN 13 : 9781478011477

Editeur : Duke University Press, 2021

Synopsis

In the final decades of the Manchu Qing dynasty in China, technologies such as the phonograph, telephone, telegraph, and photography were both new and foreign. In The Stone and the Wireless Shaoling Ma analyzes diplomatic diaries, early science fiction, feminist poetry, photography, telegrams, and other archival texts, and shows how writers, intellectuals, reformers, and revolutionaries theorized what media does despite lacking a vocabulary to do so. Media defines the dynamics between technologies and their social or cultural forms, between devices or communicative processes and their representations in texts and images. More than simply reexamining late Qing China's political upheavals and modernizing energies through the lens of media, Ma shows that a new culture of mediation was helping to shape the very distinctions between politics, gender dynamics, economics, and science and technology. Ma contends that mediation lies not only at the heart of Chinese media history but of media history writ large.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Shaoling Ma is Assistant Professor of Humanities at Yale-NUS College, Singapore.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Duke University Press
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1478011475
• ISBN 13: 9781478011477
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 312
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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