Reading and Writing Zhejiang Youth: Local Textual Economies and Cultural Production in Republican Jiangnan (2010)
In Republican-era Jiangnan, school-based publications and local educational journals created many chances for students, teachers, and local educators to produce their own texts. This essay posits that new conditions transformed the dynamics of reading and writing in local communities. It suggests that mechanized regional print markets of the twentieth century may have superficially resembled late imperial woodblock-based regional print markets, but their dynamics and print catalogues differed noticeably. The circulation of journals within this regional textual economy served in part to define Jiangsu's and Zhejiang's educational circles as the community that wrote for, published, and read journals. The essay highlights two: local educators' self-representation as professionals with specialized knowledge and skills; and the construction of local identities that were nationally situated. It shows that China's mechanized print revolution transformed printers and publishers in small cities and towns from transmitters of the national canon into producers of locality.
...MoreBook Christopher A. Reed; Cynthia Brokaw (2010) From Woodblocks to the Internet: Chinese Publishing and Print Culture in Transition, Circa 1800 to 2008.
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