Shaoling Ma, "The Stone and the Wireless: Mediating China, 1861–1906" (Duke UP, 2021)
New Books in Science, Technology, and Society
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The Introduction to a Book
i'd like to ask you, am, perhaps through a kind of narrative of how this introduction came to be. What is your intervention into the fields that you describe, and what are the important terms for youa? You have a definition of mediation that you really emphasize throughout the book. So perhaps we can move into the discussion of the book proper. I mean, your book a came together through the influence of these many fields,. And that's also a the territory that you navigate and the introduction.
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