Print, Profit, and Perception: Ideas, Information and Knowledge in Chinese Societies, 1895-1949

Contents: 

• Introduction / Pei-yin Lin & Weipin Tsai
• Cultural connections in a new global space: Li Shizeng and the Chinese Francophile Project in the early twentieth century / Paul J. Bailey
• Health and hygiene in late Qing China as seen through the eyes of Japanese travelers / Che-chia Chang
• Modernity through experimentation: Lu Xun and the modern Chinese woodcut movement / Elizabeth Emrich
• Technology, markets, and social change: print capitalism in early twentieth-century China / Tze-ki Hon
• Medical advertising and cultural translation: the case of Shenbao in early twentieth-century China / Max K.W. Huang
• Planet in print: the scientific imagination in Zheng Kunwu's fiction during Taiwan's colonial period / Mei-e Huang
• Shaping perception of the Second World War: a study of textbooks in Taiwan in the 1940s / Shi-chi Mike Lan
• Envisioning the reading public: profit motives of a Chinese-language tabloid in wartime Taiwan / Pei-yin Lin
• The first casualty: truth, lies and commercial opportunism in Chinese newspapers during the First Sino-Japanese War / Weipin Tsai