The Stone and the Wireless
Mediating China, 1861-1906
1st Edition
Published on 3. May 2021
312 pages
978-1-4780-1305-1 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Shaoling Ma is Assistant Professor of Humanities at Yale-NUS College, Singapore.
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
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
