Chapter ID: CBB543696442

Spreading the Dharma with the Mechanized Press: New Buddhist Print Cultures in the Modern Chinese Print Revolution, 1866–1949 (2010)

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The Buddhist contribution to the history of imperial Chinese print culture is well known. This essay contends that Chinese Buddhists actively engaged in the new print culture of the late Qing and Republican eras, a distinctive culture that arose with the importation of mechanized print technologies and the concentration of publishing in a few urban industrial-commercial centers. The emphasis is on the formation of the modern Buddhist cultures of textual production. mechanized publishing and new, rapid forms of transportation made ancient dreams of universally spreading the Dharma through the printed word seem possible. Many Buddhists seized new methods and led the way for a shift in Buddhist text production toward the major urban industrial-commercial publishing centers, particularly Shanghai. New types of Buddhist presses and bookstores, influenced by this new print culture, developed.

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Authors & Contributors
Ma, Shaoling
Asseraf, Arthur
Christopher A. Reed
Ling Shiao
Erik Hammerstrom
Andrea Janku
Concepts
Technology and culture
Technology and society
Technology and religion
Printing press
Periodicals; serials
Printing
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
Qing dynasty (China, 1644-1912)
Early modern
Medieval
Ancient
Places
China
Republic of China (1912-1949)
Europe
Philadelphia, PA
United States
Pakistan
Institutions
Chongqing No. 3 Children's Home
Henry Lester Institute of Medical Research
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
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