Chapter ID: CBB216434082

Culture, Commerce, and Connections: The Inner Dynamics of New Culture Publishing in the Post-May Fourth Period (2010)

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New presses worked hand in hand with May Fourth and post-May Fourth intellectuals to turn their mutual marginality into a powerful weapon in their challenge to the publishing and cultural establishment. In the late 1920s and early 1930s, the importance of the new presses lay not only in furthering the New Culture cause in the post-May Fourth era, but also in ushering in a distinctive era in the history of modern publishing in China. It was a new era in which avant-garde, highbrow, May Fourth-inspired publications became both popular and profitable. In bringing about this transformation, the new presses also established the organizational support that gave rise to the professionalization of May Fourth and post-May Fourth intellectuals as writers, editors, and publishers. This chapter focuses on small new presses, the intellectuals who allied with them, and the inner dynamics of the interlocking developments of new publishing and new cultural experiments.

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Authors & Contributors
Christopher A. Reed
Cynthia Brokaw
Jan Kiely
Ma, Shaoling
Xiujie Wu
Andrea Janku
Journals
New Books Network Podcast
Studies in Dialectics of Nature
Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal
Chinese Journal for the History of Science and Technology
Publishers
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of Hawai'i Press
Transcript
Oneworld
Manchester University Press
Harrassowitz
Concepts
Technology and society
Technology and culture
East Asia, civilization and culture
Printing press
Periodicals; serials
Printing
People
Li Wenyu (1840–1911)
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
Qing dynasty (China, 1644-1912)
21st century
20th century
Yuan Dynasty (China, ca. 1260-1368)
Places
China
Republic of China (1912-1949)
Islands of the Pacific
Pacific Ocean
Pakistan
North Carolina (U.S.)
Institutions
Chongqing No. 3 Children's Home
Henry Lester Institute of Medical Research
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
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