The Origins of the Modern Chinese Press - The Influence of the Protestant Missionary Press in Late Qing China - Hardback - 2007

Traces the emergence of the modern Chinese press from its origins in the western Christian missionary press in the late nineteenth century. This book demonstrates how missionary publications reshaped print journalism from a centuries-long monopoly by the state into a pluralized, modernizing and frequently radical public journalism.
Year of publication: 2007
Pagination: 192 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, 2 black & white tables, 5 black & white halftones
Format: Hardback
Serie: Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Series