Edward Rhoads
University of Texas at Austin
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Journal of Interdisciplinary History | 1998
Edward Rhoads
EDWARD RHOADS Shibao, or as it called itself in English, The Eastern Times, was a daily newspaper published in Shanghai from 1904 to 1939. During the arst eight years, when it was edited by Chen Leng, it was, according to Judge, “[t]he most inouential reform organ of its day” (31). This book is an analysis of its political stance, focusing upon its role in the creation and expansion, during the period of Chen’s editorship, of what the author calls a “new middle realm,” one that lay between the common people below and the ofacials above. Thus, as did like-minded publications of the time, Shibao saw its mission as, on the one hand, elevating the cultural and intellectual level of the masses and, on the other, demanding that the Qing government be responsive to the newly emerging public opinion. Based upon a close reading of its editorial commentaries and organized topically into three sections, the book examines the concept of this middle realm, the effort to forge a new public-minded politically active citizenry, and the concurrent confrontations between the press and the ofacial power holders. It is a signiacant contribution to the literature on late Qing reformism and its relationship to the onset of the republican revolution. It conarms, for example, that the reformers of the expanding middle realm did not become irretrievably estranged from the incumbent regime until the end of 1910 or the beginning of 1911. The book, particularly in the introduction and the arst chapter, also makes a signiacant contribution to comparative press history and to the debate about civil society in China. Drawing on the recent works of such scholars as Curran (for England), Popkin (France), Moran (Germany) and Huffman ( Japan), it compares and contrasts the political press in late Qing China with that in the West and Japan at a similar point in their national histories.1 Thus, it ands that “The Chinese newspapers were not part of a political structure that included other autonomous political bodies, as the foreign papers were” (26). Or, more broadly, “in China—where there had been no centuries-long development of an independent noble class, a regime of estates, or a church independent of political authority—journalism was not supported by a well-established civil society.” Consequently, “Because China did not have a genuine structure of fundamental rights, one can at most speak of late Qing society as a civil society in formation.” Indeed, referring to Jürgen Habermas, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere (Cambridge,
Archive | 1989
Edward Rhoads; R. David Arkush; Leo Ou-fan Lee
Archive | 1981
Edward Rhoads
Transfers | 2012
Edward Rhoads
Archive | 2011
Edward Rhoads
Archive | 2011
Edward Rhoads
Pacific Historical Review | 2005
Edward Rhoads
Journal of the American Oriental Society | 1975
Edward Rhoads; David Pong
Journal of Interdisciplinary History | 2009
Edward Rhoads
The Journal of Asian Studies | 2005
Edward Rhoads