Rudolf G. Wagner is Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Heidelberg and the author or editor of many books, including A Chinese Reading of the Daodejing: Wang Bi's Commentary on the Laozi with Critical Text and Translation, also published by SUNY Press.

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Preface

Introduction
Rudolf G. Wagner

1. Domesticating an Alien Medium: Incorporating the Western-style Newspaper into the Chinese Public Sphere
Barbara Mittler

2. Useful Knowledge and Appropriate Communication: The Field Journalistic Production in Late Nineteenth-Century China
Natascha Gentz

3. Joining the Global Imaginaire: The Shanghai Illustrated Newspaper Dianshizhai huabao
Rudolf G. Wagner

4. New Wine in Old Bottles? Making and Reading an Illustrated Magazine from Late Nineteenth-Century Shanghai
Nanny Kim

5. Shanghai Leisure, Print Entertainment, and the Tabloids, xiaobao
Catherine Vance Yeh

List of Contributors
Index