Approche historique de la publicité en Chine et ailleurs
This is the third installment in our series aimed at a material history of the Chinese press based on Crows’ Newspaper Directory of China (1931-35). In the previous essay, we analyzed how the size...
This short essay has been inspired by my growing dissatisfaction with, if not irritation towards the commonplace dichotomy “traditional vs. digital” history, and my recent reading of Eun Seo Jo’s groundbreaking Ph.D thesis proposing...
In 1931, Carl Crow published the first Newspaper Directory of China1. It was the first of a series of four successive editions of what was to become a reference book in professional circles. The...
As we announced in our previous post, what we propose in this essay is a statistical exploration of the journal, including the number of articles published per issue and period, the volume of each...
This is the second instalment of my series devoted the Chinese Economic Journal (CEJ) and the development of technocratic expertise in modern China. While my previous post consists in a general introduction to this...
In this post, I want to introduce an invaluable – yet unknown – journal that I discovered while I was seeking new materials on Chinese history during my postdoc at Stanford: the Chinese Economic...
Research blog devoted to the history of advertising and consumer societies in modern China – and beyond.
