Print and Politics
'Shibao' and the Culture of Reform in Late Qing China
Published on 1. March 1997
312 pages
978-0-8047-6493-3 (ISBN)
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.
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.
Reviews / Votes
"Print and Politics is a first-rate study of a very influential Chinese newspaper. It provides us with a richly textured picture of the evolution of radical approaches to reform in the years leading up to the Revolution of 1911, as well as a fascinating overview of the attempts of one key group to develop a new political vocabulary rooted in indigenous and imported concepts that would empower the exercise of public opinion."-Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Indiana UniversityAll prices
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Series
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Palo Alto
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
27 illus
ISBN-13
978-0-8047-6493-3 (9780804764933)
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Book
03/1997
Stanford University Press
€96.50
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Person
Joan Judge is Assistant Professor of Chinese History at the University of Utah.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction: The Significance of the New Middle Realm
- Part I: The Formation of the New Middle Realm
- 1. The Power of Print in the Late Qing: The Rise of the Political Press
- 2. The Shibao Jounalists: Political and Cultural Brokers in the New Middle Realm
- 3. Theorizing the Middle Realm: Classical and Contemporary Sources of Authority
- Part II: New-Style Noble Men: The Publicists and "The People
- Prologue
- 4. From Subjects to Citizens
- 5. Forging a New Citizenry
- 6. The Common People's Cause
- Part III: "Ruffians in Scholars' Robes": The Publicists Versus the Power Holders
- Prologue
- 7. Minquan and Guanquan: Popular Power Versus Official Power
- 8. The Institutionalization of the Middle Realm
- 9. The Reformists' Base of Operations
- Conclusion: The Fate of the Middle Realm
- Appendix A: Biographical Index of Journalists and a Word on Pseudonyms
- Appendix B: Background to the Late Qing Popular Uprisings
- Glossary
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
