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History of Chinese newspapers

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The East Asian press was studied relatively late in the West. One of the reasons is that newspapers did not exist in China, Japan, and Korea until these countries opened to Western influences. There were certainly forerunners of newsprint also in the indigenous tradition, like the famous Peking
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Hartmut Walravens: "The Early East Asian Press in the Eyes of the West. Some bibliographical notes", World Library and Information Congress, 72nd General Conference and Council of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 20–24 August 2006, Seoul, Korea, p.
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Gazette (Jingpao) which is often claimed to be oldest newspaper of the world. We find numerous little articles in Western papers on the Jingbao, usually from secondary or tertiary sources; they do not take into account that this gazette had limited circulation and that it just contained
185:, which published from 1815 to 1821, marked the beginning of Chinese journalism. It was managed by Robert Morrison, and was printed in Malacca using traditional woodblock printing. It was primarily a Christian missionary organ, although it did include some news. 212:, and also commentary. The British Bible Society imported a cylinder printer in 1847, China's first powered printing machine. In the 1860s, William Dill Gamble, from Ramelton, Ireland, working at American Presbyterian Mission Press in Shanghai, applied 216:
technology to the problem of Chinese typography to create "Meihua type." This revolutionary innovation remained an industry standard for the rest of the 19th century. Gamble's techniques were also adopted in Japan.
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was published daily until 1912. As this publication was intended for government officials only, it is not considered a true newspaper. However, it was widely read by others.
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The proper newspaper was introduced relatively late in the Far East, as a result of Western influence and the adoption of the
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The Origins of the Modern Chinese Press: The Influence of the Protestant Missionary Press in Late Qing China
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The first reference to privately published news sheets in China is in 1582 in
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was published from 1833 to 1838. This magazine included far more news than
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China's first Western-style newspaper, the Portuguese-language
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The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China
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in China took the form of government bulletins such as the
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2006 World Library and Information Congress pre-conference
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was established in 1822, followed by the English-language
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Chinese-language missionary journalism restarted with
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Newspapers of the People's Republic of China#History
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Index

newspapers
Peking Gazette
missionary
Chinese


pinyin
Chinese language
Spring and Autumn Annals
tipao
Kaiyuan Za Bao
Peking Gazette
printing press
edicts
decrees
definition of newspaper
newspapers of the People's Republic of China
Shen Bao
Xin Wen Bao
Zi Lin Xi Hu Bao
Ta Kung Pao
history of newspapers
Beijing
Qing dynasty
Canton Register
Eastern Western Magazine
electrotype
North China Daily News
Shanghai Xinbao
Wanguo Gongbao

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