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 3 discusses the development of Chinese journalism from the late Qing Dynasty leading up to the 1911 Revolution, focusing on the media feud between the revolutionaries and the reformists. The book also follows the development of journalism in the early period of the Republic of China, and explains the role of newspaper in political power struggles. This period also sees the first appearance of newspapers in the modern sense, as well as video journalism, in China.