A History of Journalism in China

This series provides a comprehensive history of journalism in China. It chronicles two millennia of journalistic history from the 2nd century BC to the 1990s, and includes coverage of newspapers, periodicals, news agencies, broadcast television, photography, documentary film, journal cartoons, journal education, as well as information about reporters, journalists, and other aspects of journalism. Volume 2 discusses the development of Chinese journalism from the tumultuous days of the late Qing Dynasty (1895–1911) to the Hundred Days’ Reform and up to the early rumblings of the 1911 Revolution. This book also traces the evolution of the media as a tool for spreading political propaganda by looking at the power struggles of bourgeois reformists and revolutionists against the backdrop of the Qing Empire.