In 1872 in the treaty port of Shanghai, British merchant Ernest Major founded one of the longest-lived and most successful of modern Chinese-language newspapers, the Shenbao. His publication quickly became a leading newspaper in China and won praise as a "department store of news," a "forum for intellectual discussion and moral challenge," and an "independent mouthpiece of the public voice." Located in the International Settlement of Shanghai, it was free of government regulation. Paradoxically, in a country where the government monopolized the public sphere, it became one of the world's most independent newspapers.
As a private venture, the Shenbao was free of the ideologies that constrained missionary papers published in China during the nineteenth century. But it also lacked the subsidies that allowed these papers to survive without a large readership. As a purely commercial venture, the foreign-managed Shenbao depended on the acceptance of educated Chinese, who would write for it, read it, and buy it. This book sets out to analyze how the managers of the Shenbao made their alien product acceptable to Chinese readers and how foreign-style newspapers became alternative modes of communication acknowledged as a powerful part of the Chinese public sphere within a few years. In short, it describes how the foreign Shenbao became a "newspaper for China."
Barbara Mittler is Associate Professor at the Insitute of Chinese Studies, University of Heidelberg.
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课程要求读了Introduction和Fairsexing it两部分。作者将申报视为一个既不受清廷管辖、又不为外国政府控制(存疑)的中立空间,视作中国古代“不出户庭而知天下”以及“广见闻开风气而通上下”的理想的实现。清廷、租界领事以及中国民众均认识到报纸的重要性,并以不同方式(镇压、管控、拥护)传达出这种认识。纵使申报试图呈现妇女解放的讯息,建构想象中的女性读者,使之借阅报的机会同时建构现代女性主体,却因为摆脱不了这种建构的被动特质和传统伦理的桎梏,终告失败。分析浮于表面,缺乏深入展开。
评分推薦Chapter4, 對於readership的討論很有啟發。
评分推薦Chapter4, 對於readership的討論很有啟發。
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