Women and the Periodical Press in China's Long Twentieth Century: A Space of the

Name: Women and the Periodical Press in China's Long Twentieth Century: A Space of the
Brand: Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press

Women and the Periodical Press in China's Long Twentieth CenturyA Space of their Own?\nAuthor(s): Michel Hockx, Joan Judge, Barbara Mittler\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108419758, 978-1108419758\nSynopsis\nIn this major new collection, an international team of scholars examine the relationship between the Chinese women's periodical press and global modernity in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The essays in this richly illustrated volume probe the ramifications for women of two monumental developments in this period: the intensification of China's encounters with foreign powers and a media transformation comparable in its impact to the current internet age. The book offers a distinctive methodology for studying the periodical press, which is supported by the development of a bilingual database of early Chinese periodicals. Throughout the study, essays on China are punctuated by .