The Stone and the Wireless: Mediating China, 1861-1906 Ma Shaoling
The Stone and the Wireless: Mediating China, 1861-1906 Ma Shaoling In the final decades of the Manchu Qing dynasty in China, technologies such as the phonograph, telephone, telegraph, and photography…
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The Stone and the Wireless: Mediating China, 1861-1906 Ma Shaoling
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. Media defines the dynamics between technologies and their social or cultural forms, between devices or communicative processes and their representations in texts and images. 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.
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