The Origins of the Modern Chinese Press: The Influence of the Protestant Missionary Press in Late Qing China

by Xiantao Zhang

Book Overview

This book traces the emergence of the modern Chinese press from its origins in the western Christian missionary press in the late nineteenth century.

It shows how the western missionaries and their evangelical/educational newspapers changed the long-standing traditional practices, styles, content, print culture and printing technology of Chinese newspapers and, in the process, introduced some of the key ideas of western modernity which...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415545404
• ISBN13: 9780415545402
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"