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Newspapers in modern China: Historical origins and contemporary development
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Date Issued
2024
Publisher
Routledge
Citation
He, Q. (2024). Newspapers in modern China: Historical origins and contemporary development. Routledge Resources Online - Chinese Studies.
Type
Other Article
Abstract
This entry surveys the evolution of the periodical press – mostly newspapers – in China from the second half of the nineteenth century to the present. It traces the origin of Chinese newspapers to imperial times and underscores the hybrid nature – a blending of China’s government-run papers and foreign printed media – of early Chinese newspapers in the last several decades of the Qing dynasty (1644–1911). This entry presents the diverse uses of newspapers as amusement and political instruments in Republican times (1911–1949) and the complete politicisation of newspapers in the People’s Republic of China (1949–present). Finally, with the rise of the Internet in the new millennium, the mechanisms of producing and consuming news in China, like in other parts of the world, have undergone dramatic changes. Nevertheless, the digitisation of news is not expected to result in the ‘democratisation process’ as has been anticipated by scholars.
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