Description
| Product ID: | 9781478011477 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Sign, Storage, Transmission |
| Title: | The Stone and the Wireless |
| Subtitle: | Mediating China, 1861-1906 |
| Authors: | Author: Shaoling Ma |
| Page Count: | 312 |
| Subjects: | Asian history, Asian history, Media studies, Media studies, China, c 1800 to c 1900, c 1900 - c 1914 |
| 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. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Duke University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Duke University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-06-11 |
