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Stone and the Wireless : Mediating China, 1861–1906, Paperback by Ma, Shaolin...
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- Condition
- Book Title
- Stone and the Wireless : Mediating China, 1861–1906
- ISBN
- 9781478011477
- Subject Area
- Language Arts & Disciplines, Social Science, History
- Publication Name
- Stone and the Wireless : Mediating China, 1861-1906
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Subject
- Media Studies, Asia / China, Linguistics / General
- Publication Year
- 2021
- Series
- Sign, Storage, Transmission Ser.
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7 in
- Item Weight
- 15.2 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 312 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Duke University Press
ISBN-10
1478011475
ISBN-13
9781478011477
eBay Product ID (ePID)
15050398679
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
312 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Stone and the Wireless : Mediating China, 1861-1906
Publication Year
2021
Subject
Media Studies, Asia / China, Linguistics / General
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Language Arts & Disciplines, Social Science, History
Series
Sign, Storage, Transmission Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
15.2 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2020-036881
TitleLeading
The
Reviews
Scholars and graduate students interested in global media cultures and media theory will find The Stone and the Wireless a valuable addition to the North American and Western European canon of media theory. This book not only challenges the predominant emphasis on forms and objects, but also constructs a complex web of mediation through its narrative. Chinese notions, texts, and historical contexts serve as the subjects of discussion, not the backdrop. For scholars of world literature, comparative literature, and science fiction, the book offers close readings of untranslated and understudied sources., Scholars in gender studies and labor history will also be inspired by its discussion of gendered subjectivity and the working masses in Chinese literature. Since our current era is marked by the widespread popularity and significant influence of Artificial Intelligence, general readers will find the debates surrounding the capacity of machines to replicate human cognition and language during the late Qing era very relevant as well., Connecting history, theory, and area studies, The Stone and the Wireless makes contributions to many fields, including media studies, literary criticism, and cultural studies. It introduces new sources to the study of media history and science fiction history in China. It also provides valuable insights and fresh materials to the global history of technology by investigating the circulation of technical knowledge between new areas and regions., Ma's book is a valuable addition to the growing literature on media in Chinese history. Her focus on the late Qing period, instead of the republican era, is especially worthy of praise. The Stone and the Wireless opens an intellectual space to think about mediation and ponder its strengths and weaknesses as a method. It will be an essential read for Chinese media studies going forward., The beauty of Shaoling Ma's inspiring and provocative argument is that it allows for a reconsideration of late Qing culture through a new prism and for the expansion of mediality beyond the familiar confines of Western culture. Offering fresh readings and giving new life to key texts in modern Chinese history and literature, Ma makes an intervention that will force the field of Chinese studies to reassess its methodology and fundamental assumptions., From late Qing texts and media studies to Marxist criticism and affect theory, The Stone and the Wireless combines different archives, discourses, and theoretical registers in new and exciting ways. This innovative, rich, and intellectually engaging work will appeal to those in Chinese studies and media studies more broadly., The Stone and the Wireles s . . . sets an important example for readership in and beyond the China field that sources such as Guo's diplomatic diaries and newspaper photojournalism have immense interdisciplinary potential. Using media theory methods, these objects of historical interest can exist within area-specific history and form part of generative, ongoing debates surrounding media and media technology.
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
302.23095
Table Of Content
Acknowledgments ix Introduction. The Forms of Media 1 Part I. Jl Recordings 1. Guo Songtao's Phonograph: The Politics and Aesthetics of Real and Imagined Media 37 2. Stone, Copy, Medium: "Tidbits of Writing" and "Official Documents" in New Story of the Stone (1905-1906) 74 Part II. Chuan/Zhuan Transmissions 3. Lyrical Media: Technology, Sentimentality, and Bad Models of the Feeling Woman 111 Part III. Tong Interconnectivity 4. 1900: Infrastructural Emergencies of Telegraphic Proportions 149 5. A Medium to End All Media: "New Tales of Mr. Braggadocio" and the Social Brain of Industry and Intellect 181 Conclusion: Stone, Woman, Wireless 207 Notes 219 Bibliography 261 Index 285
Synopsis
In the final decades of the Manchu Qing dynasty in China, technologies such as the phonograph, telephone, telegraph, and photography were both new and foreign. In The Stone and the Wireless Shaoling Ma analyzes diplomatic diaries, early science fiction, feminist poetry, photography, telegrams, and other archival texts, and shows how writers, intellectuals, reformers, and revolutionaries theorized what media does despite lacking a vocabulary to do so. Media defines the dynamics between technologies and their social or cultural forms, between devices or communicative processes and their representations in texts and images. More than simply reexamining late Qing China's political upheavals and modernizing energies through the lens of media, Ma shows that a new culture of mediation was helping to shape the very distinctions between politics, gender dynamics, economics, and science and technology. Ma contends that mediation lies not only at the heart of Chinese media history but of media history writ large., Shaoling Ma examines late Qing China's political upheavals and modernizing energies through the problem of the dynamics between new media technologies such as the telegraph the discursive representations of them.
LC Classification Number
P94.65.C6M35 2021
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