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The stone and the wireless : mediating China, 1861-1906 /

"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."--

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ma, Shaoling, 1980- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.
Series:Sign, storage, transmission.
Subjects:
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Guo Songtao's phonograph : the politics and aesthetics of real and imagined media
  • Stone, copy, medium : "tidbits of writing" and "official documents" in New story of the stone (1905-1906)
  • Lyrical media : technology, sentimentality, and bad models of the feeling woman
  • 1900 : infrastructural emergencies of telegraphic proportions
  • A medium to end all media : "New tales of Mr. Braggadocio" and the social brain of industry and intellect.