Gutenberg in Shanghai
2004 non-fiction book by Christopher Alexander Reed
Gutenberg in Shanghai: Chinese Print Capitalism, 1876–1937 is a non-fiction book by Christopher Alexander Reed, published in 2004 by the University of British Columbia Press.
The work focuses on how entities in China took the style of press printing that had been used in Western countries.
It is distributed in the United States by University of Hawaii Press.
Background
The author studied at the University of California, Berkeley for his PhD and made a thesis, published in 1998. This thesis was used to create this book.
The sources used originate from China and from Western countries. Sourcing from the People's Republic of China was a large component used to develop the first chapter. The author did not use sourcing from Japan.
The author used documents in archives, documents from missionaries, works of fiction, interviews with people who worked as apprentices in print operations, memoirs, trade organization documents, and other primary sources as a means of referencing the work. The interviews had been conducted in the 1950s.
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Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q130457628. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1876, 1937, 2004 and 1998.
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