The Stone and the Wireless

The Stone and the Wireless
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Publisher : Duke University Press
Total Pages : 206
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ISBN-10 : 9781478013051
ISBN-13 : 1478013052
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Book Synopsis The Stone and the Wireless by : Shaoling Ma

Download or read book The Stone and the Wireless written by Shaoling Ma and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-03 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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