Joining the Global Public

Explores the early Chinese press, which emerged in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and its impact on China's modernization. Joining the Global Public examines early Chinese-language newspapers and analyzes their impact on China's modernization. Exploring a range of media such as regular dailies, illustrated weeklies, and entertainment papers, contributors look at factors that influenced the nature of these publications, including foreign models, foreign managers, and a first g