Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Abbreviations -- From Woodblocks to the Internet: Chinese Printing, Publishing, and Literary Fields in Transition, circa 1800 to 2008 -- Modern Print Culture in Historical Perspective -- Commercial Woodblock Publishing in the Qing (1644-1911) and the Transition to Modern Print Technology -- Modernization without Mechanization: The Changing Shape of Fiction on the Eve of the Opium War -- New Technologies and the Transition to Modern Print Culture -- Messenger of the Sacred Heart: Li Wenyu (1840-1911) and the Jesuit Periodical Press in Late Qing Shanghai -- The Uses of Genres in the Chinese Press from the Late Qing to the Early Republican Period -- Printing the Sound of Cosmopolitan Beijing: Dialect Acents in Nineteenth-Century Martial Arts Fiction -- Spreading the Dharma with the Mechanized Press: New Buddhist Print Cultures in the Modern Chinese Print Revolution, 1866-1949 -- The Golden Age of Print Capitalism -- Culture, Commerce, and Connections: The Inner Dynamics of New Culture Publishing in the Post-May Fourth Period -- Reading and Writing Zhejiang Youth: Local Textual Economies and Cultural Production in Republican Jiangnan -- Advancing the (Gutenberg) Revolution: The Origins and Development of Chinese Print Communism, 1921-1947 -- Print in The Internet Era -- Consuming Secrets: China's New Print Culture at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century -- Chinese Internet Literature and the Changing Field of Print Culture -- Resistance Is Futile: Control and Censorship of the Internet in China -- Comprehensive Bibliography -- Index.