Framing Literary Reforms: Huabian , the Rise of Graphic Design, and Chinese Print Industrialism.
This article considers the development of graphic design in early twentieth-century China as a response to the possibilities and challenges posed by China's conversion to industrial printing. Focusing on the use of huabian (the Chinese term for page-border decoration) in a series of literary periodi...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Design History Vol. 39; no. 2; pp. 179 - 196 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Jun2026
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