Downsizing the Press? Crow’s Newspaper Directory Series (5)

This is the second installment in our series aimed at a material history of the Chinese press based on Crows' Newspaper Directory of China (1931-35). In the previous post, we analyzed the number of pages and showed how the length of periodicals depended on their periodicity and language. In this episode, we will examine the size of the page. Did periodicals become more compact in the early 1930s? How did the size of periodicals relate to the frequency, the language and the place of publicatio..