Shaoling Ma

The Stone and the Wireless

Mediating China, 1861-1906

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Produktbeschreibung

Shaoling Ma examines late Qing China's political upheavals and modernizing energies through the problem of the dynamics between new media technologies such as the telegraph the discursive representations of them.

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Produktdetails

• Sign, Storage, Transmission
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 466g
• ISBN-13: 9781478011477
• ISBN-10: 1478011475
• Artikelnr.: 60141585

Autorenporträt

Shaoling Ma

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction. The Forms of Media  1
Part I. Jl Recordings
1. Guo Songtao's Phonograph: The Politics and Aesthetics of Real and
Imagined Media  37
2. Stone, Copy, Medium: "Tidbits of Writing" and "Official Documents" in
New Story of the Stone (1905–1906)  74
Part II. Chuan/Zhuan Transmissions
3. Lyrical Media: Technology, Sentimentality, and Bad Models of the Feeling
Woman  111
Part III. Tong Interconnectivity
4. 1900: Infrastructural Emergencies of Telegraphic Proportions  149
5. A Medium to End All Media: "New Tales of Mr. Braggadocio" and the Social
Brain of Industry and Intellect  181
Conclusion: Stone, Woman, Wireless  207
Notes  219
Bibliography  261
Index  285