Merry Laughter and Angry Curses: The Shanghai Tabloid Press, 1897-1911 (Contemporary Chinese Studies)

Merry Laughter and Angry Curses reveals how the late-Qing-era tabloid press became the voice of the people. This book shows the tabloid community to be both a producer of meanings and a participant in the social and cultural dialogue that would shake the foundations of imperial China and lead to the 1911 Republican Revolution.