Sow Melons and Reap Beans: Reading Culture and Reception Politics in the Late Qing Dynasty and Early Republic of China

About This Novel

This book focuses on the construction of reading cultures in China at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China and the related issues of "reception politics", as well as the issue of how new knowledge from Europe, America and Japan is reproduced in China, such as enlightenment, new sexual ethics and reproductive concepts, some of which are different from those in the West. How were the key concepts closely related to modernity, such as Hegel, Gutenberg, and Esperanto, concretized, localized, and even symbolized in the introduction by the mass media and intellectual elites who "replaced the old and sought the new"?

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