Contents

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1 Cultural Connections in a New Global Space: Li Shizeng and the Chinese Francophile Project in the Early Twentieth Century

Early Years in France

Sino-French Cultural Interaction

Li Shizeng’s Philosophy of Work-Study

Conclusion

Chapter 2 Health and Hygiene in Late Qing China as Seen Through the Eyes of Japanese Travelers

Networks of Travelers

Categories of Traveler

First Impressions: Dirty! Dirty! Dirty!

Understanding the Japanese Viewpoint

Conclusion

Chapter 3 Modernity through Experimentation: Lu Xun and the Modern Chinese Woodcut Movement

Alternative Modernities and Lu Xun’s “Grabism”

Lu Xun in Shanghai and His Translations on Art

Lu Xun and Woodcut Publications

Humanism and Social Construction in Woodblock Prints

Lu Xun and Woodcut Print Societies

Conclusion

Chapter 4 Technology, Markets, and Social Change: Print Capitalism in Early Twentieth-Century China

Local Initiatives and Domestic Factors in Technology Transfer

Markets, Circulation and Profits

National Learning as Cultural Capital

Professional Geographers and Public Intellectuals

Conclusion

Chapter 5 Medical Advertising and Cultural Translation: The Case of Shenbao in Early Twentieth-Century China

Understanding the Human Body in Early Republican China

Medical Advertising and Cultural Translation

Conclusion

Chapter 6 Planet in Print: The Scientific Imagination in Zheng Kunwu’s Fiction during Taiwan’s Colonial Period

From Аstronomical Reports to Fiction Writing

Scientific Fantasy and Humanistic Reality

Between Science Fiction and Detective Story

Conclusion

Chapter 7 Shaping Perception of the Second World War: A Study of Textbooks in Taiwan in the 1940s

Presentation of the War in Japanese Colonial Texts Before 1945

The War in Chinese Nationalist Texts After 1945

Localizing the War in Textbooks: Before and After 1945

Conclusion

Chapter 8 Envisioning the Reading Public: Profit Motives of a Chinese-Language Tabloid in Wartime Taiwan

Positioning the Chinese-Language Tabloids in Colonial Taiwan

Chinese Literati-Courtesan Connections and Western Exotica

Appropriating and Speculating about Love

From Freedom of Love to Condemnation of Unrestrained Free Love

Alternative Modernity and Re-Аppropriation of Love

Conclusion

Chapter 9 The First Casualty: Truth, Lies and Commercial Opportunism in Chinese Newspapers during the First Sino-Japanese War

War Reporting in the West and in China in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century

Battle-Ready and Eager for the Fight

The War for Readership

In the Newspapers’ Defense

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index