Abstract:

The Commercial Press, rising in the modern Chinese printing technology revolution, was

the important city of art reproduction in the first half of the 20th century. The paper seeks to explore

the technological innovation on artistic reproduction of the Commercial Press， focusing on the link

between newly introduced techniques and specific type of artistic work. It argues that the artistic

reproduction of the Commercial Press is not only the result of the functioning of China’s printing

capitalism， but also a public sphere where artistic consuming， sponsoring and connoisseurship

were interrelated.

Key words:

Artistic reproduction Printing Publishing enterprise The Commercial Press

CLC Number: 

• G239