The Press Should be United: The relationship between the state and the press in early 20th century China
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Title:
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The Press Should be United: The relationship between the state and the press in early 20th century China |
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Author:
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Wiedemann, Chris
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Advisor:
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Jiang, Yonglin; Smith, Paul Jacov
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Department:
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Haverford College Dept. of History |
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Type:
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Thesis (B.A.) |
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Issue Date:
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2010 |
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Abstract:
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The Chinese press is often the subject of foreign criticism: it is centrally controlled, offers
no scope for dissenting opinion, and its monitors are quick to stamp out extra-governmental flows of information. My thesis is an attempt to answer the question of how, exactly, the press in China took on the shape that it did. I argue that, while propaganda and censorship have both been
features of PRC press from its inception, the roots of China's particular press model lie in the
late Qing and early Republican periods, when the world's longest surviving empire dissolved in
less than a century. In many areas of society, the response to the fall of the Qing was an
adaptation, whether intentional or subconscious, of traditional Chinese cultural mores and
theories of statecraft--the imperial orthodox ideology of the court. I contend that the Chinese
press was both representative of that adaption and fundamentally shaped by it. The press became
the educative tool of a powerful central state. |
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Subject:
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Government and the press -- China
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Subject:
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Press -- China -- History -- 20th century
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Terms of Use:
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/
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Permanent URL:
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http://hdl.handle.net/10066/4942
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Wiedemann, Chris.
"The Press Should be United: The relationship between the state and the press in early 20th century China".
2010. Available electronically from
http://hdl.handle.net/10066/4942.
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