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Journal of Interdisciplinary History | 1998

Print and Politics: “Shibao” and the Culture of Reform in Late Qing China. By Joan Judge (Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1996) 298 pp.

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

45.00

Edward Rhoads; R. David Arkush; Leo Ou-fan Lee


Archive | 1981

Land Without Ghosts : Chinese Impressions of America from the Mid-Nineteenth Century to the Present

Edward Rhoads


Transfers | 2012

Chiang Kai-Shek: His Life and Times

Edward Rhoads


Archive | 2011

Cycles of Cathay: A History of the Bicycle in China

Edward Rhoads


Archive | 2011

Stepping Forth into the World

Edward Rhoads


Pacific Historical Review | 2005

Stepping Forth Into the World: The Chinese Educational Mission to the United States, 1872-81

Edward Rhoads


Journal of the American Oriental Society | 1975

In The Shadow Of Yung Wing

Edward Rhoads; David Pong


Journal of Interdisciplinary History | 2009

A critical guide to the Kwangtung provincial archives, deposited at the Public Record Office of London

Edward Rhoads


The Journal of Asian Studies | 2005

The Precious Raft of History: The Past, the West, and the Woman Question in China (review)

Edward Rhoads

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