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

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"The Stone and the Wireless redefines the concept of media to animate the dynamic relations between technics and signification, history and theory, and science and culture in turn-of-the-twentieth century China. Analyzing diplomatic diaries, early science fiction, political and social treatises...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ma, Shaoling, 1980- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Technological innovations > Social aspects
Popular culture
Mass media > Semiotics
Mass media > Political aspects
Mass media and culture
Mass media
Technological innovations > Social aspects > China.
Popular culture > China > History > 20th century.
Mass media > China > History > 20th century.
Mass media > Political aspects > China.
Mass media > Semiotics > China.
Mass media and culture > China.
China
History
Electronic books.
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.

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