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Print and Politics: ‘Shibao’ and the Culture of Reform in Late Qing China

By Joan Judge

Book information

Publisher
Stanford University Press
Year
1997
ISBN
0804727414, 9780804727419
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
23 MB (23663208 bytes)
Series
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute
Edition
1
Pages
312\315
Time added
2016-03-28 08:27:01
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Description

Print and Politics offers a cultural history of a late Qing newspaper, Shibao, the most influential reform daily of its time. Exploring the simultaneous emergence of a new print culture and a new culture of politics in early-twentieth-century China, the book treats Shibao as both institution and text and demonstrates how the journalists who wrote for the paper attempted to stake out a “middle realm” of discourse and practice.Chronicling the role these journalists played in educational and constitutional organizations, as well as their involvement in major issues of the day, it analyzes their essays as political documents and as cultural artifacts. Particular attention is paid to the language the journalists used, the cultural constructs they employed to structure their arguments, and the multiple sources of authority they appealed to in advancing their claims for reform.

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