From Woodblocks to the Internet

From Woodblocks to the Internet: Chinese Publishing and Print Culture in Transition, circa 1800 to 2008 is a 2010 collection of essays edited by Cynthia Brokaw and Cristopher Reed.

[4] Brokaw and Reed organized an international conference entitled "From Woodblocks to the Internet: Chinese Publishing and Print Culture in Transition".

It was held at Ohio State University in November 2004, with literary historian Harvey J. Graff giving the keynote address on connections in the study of western and Chinese print culture.

"New Technologies and the Transition to Modern Print Culture" details specific communities of readers and writers that developed during the late Qing period.

[12][13] Multiple reviewers questioned the anthology's minimal coverage of the early People's Republic, with the 1949–1990 era only briefly mentioned during Reed's introduction.

A photo of a person carving Chinese characters into a row of wooden blocks
Modern demonstration of carving for woodblock printing
Internet cafés provide access to online content for many Chinese