Naming periodicals in early 1930s China
This is the last instalment in our series devoted to Carl Crow’s Newspaper Directory of China. The purpose of this essay is twofold: Substantially, to reveal patterns in the naming of periodicals and to...
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Decomposing the press in 1930s China: A Principal Component Analysis
This is the continuation of the multiple correspondence analysis conducted in the previous essay. In this new instalment, we concentrate on the four main continuous variables in our dataset of periodicals (number of pages,...
Mapping the press in 1930s China: A Multiple Correspondance Analysis
This is the continuation of our Newspaper Directory of China series. In this new instalment, we rely on Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA) to summarize and go beyond the previous analyses based on single attributes or pairs...
Making the news in Republican China: A study of publishers in Crow’s Newspaper Directory of China (1931-5)
This is the continuation of our series devoted to Carl Crow’s Newspaper Directory of China. In the last episode we examined the circulation of periodicals. This new instalment focuses on their publishers and addresses...
Spreading the news: The circulation of Periodicals in Crow’s Newspaper Directory of China
This essay is the continuation of our series devoted to Crow’s Newspaper Directory of China. In the previous essay, we analyzed the layout of periodicals. In this new instalment, we examined their circulation. Note:...
Mapping pages in Crow’s Newspaper Directory of China (6)
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...
Downsizing the Press? Crow’s Newspaper Directory Series (5)
This is the second 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 post, we analyzed the number of...
Towards a material history of the press in modern China: Crow’s Newspaper Directory Series (4)
This is a continuation of my series devoted to Crow’s Newspaper Directory of China. The next three episodes analyze the length, the format and the layout of periodicals. Our objective is to understand how...
Crow’s Newspaper Directory of China (3): Periodicity & Language
An enriched version of this essay is available on the ENP-China Community on Peers (Digital Pamphlet Series No.3). This is the third instalment of our series devoted to Carl Crow’s Newspaper Directory of China...
Crow’s Newspaper Directory of China (2): Birth and expansion of the press in modern China
An enriched version of this essay is available on the ENP-China Community on Peers (Digital Pamphlet Series No.3). This is the second instalment of our series devoted to Carl Crow’s Newspaper Directory of China....
Crow’s Newspaper Directory of China (1): An Introduction
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...
