Robert Culp is associate professor of history and Asian studies at Bard College. His books include Articulating Citizenship: Civic Education and Student Politics in Southeastern China, 1912–1940 (2007).

Rich, meticulous, and sparkling with insight, this work further cements Culp's position as perhaps the foremost scholar of modern Chinese print culture, knowledge formation, and intellectual history working today.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroductionPart I. Recruiting Talent, Mobilizing Labor1. Becoming Editors: Late Qing Literati’s Scholarly Lives and Cultural Production2. Universities or Factories? Academics, Petty Intellectuals, and the Industrialization of Mental LaborPart I Epilogue: War, Revolution, HiatusPart II. Creating Culture3. Transforming Word and Concept Through Textbooks and Dictionaries4. Repackaging the Past: Reproducing Classics Through Industrial Publishing5. Introducing New Worlds of Knowledge: Series Publications and the Transformation of China’s Knowledge CulturePart III. Legacies of Industrialized Cultural Production6. Print Industrialism and State Socialism: Public-Private Joint Management and Divisions of Labor in the Early PRC Publishing Industry7. Negotiated Cultural Production in the Pedagogical StateConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

Robert Culp is associate professor of history and Asian studies at Bard College. His books include Articulating Citizenship: Civic Education and Student Politics in Southeastern China, 1912–1940 (2007).

Rich, meticulous, and sparkling with insight, this work further cements Culp's position as perhaps the foremost scholar of modern Chinese print culture, knowledge formation, and intellectual history working today.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroductionPart I. Recruiting Talent, Mobilizing Labor1. Becoming Editors: Late Qing Literati’s Scholarly Lives and Cultural Production2. Universities or Factories? Academics, Petty Intellectuals, and the Industrialization of Mental LaborPart I Epilogue: War, Revolution, HiatusPart II. Creating Culture3. Transforming Word and Concept Through Textbooks and Dictionaries4. Repackaging the Past: Reproducing Classics Through Industrial Publishing5. Introducing New Worlds of Knowledge: Series Publications and the Transformation of China’s Knowledge CulturePart III. Legacies of Industrialized Cultural Production6. Print Industrialism and State Socialism: Public-Private Joint Management and Divisions of Labor in the Early PRC Publishing Industry7. Negotiated Cultural Production in the Pedagogical StateConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

Robert Culp is associate professor of history and Asian studies at Bard College. His books include Articulating Citizenship: Civic Education and Student Politics in Southeastern China, 1912–1940 (2007).

Rich, meticulous, and sparkling with insight, this work further cements Culp's position as perhaps the foremost scholar of modern Chinese print culture, knowledge formation, and intellectual history working today.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroductionPart I. Recruiting Talent, Mobilizing Labor1. Becoming Editors: Late Qing Literati’s Scholarly Lives and Cultural Production2. Universities or Factories? Academics, Petty Intellectuals, and the Industrialization of Mental LaborPart I Epilogue: War, Revolution, HiatusPart II. Creating Culture3. Transforming Word and Concept Through Textbooks and Dictionaries4. Repackaging the Past: Reproducing Classics Through Industrial Publishing5. Introducing New Worlds of Knowledge: Series Publications and the Transformation of China’s Knowledge CulturePart III. Legacies of Industrialized Cultural Production6. Print Industrialism and State Socialism: Public-Private Joint Management and Divisions of Labor in the Early PRC Publishing Industry7. Negotiated Cultural Production in the Pedagogical StateConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex