Toward a History of the Chinese Press in the Republican Period

@article{Mackinnon1997TowardAH,
  title={Toward a History of the Chinese Press in the Republican Period},
  author={Stephen R. Mackinnon},
  journal={Modern China},
  year={1997},
  volume={23},
  pages={3 - 32}
}
Anderson (1991) made the connection global by arguing that the rise of the modem press or print capitalism has been the catalyst for the spread of modem nationalist movements as &dquo;imagined communities.&dquo; Concerning China, it has been argued that the creation of a new politically radical press at the turn of the century created a mediating &dquo;public space&dquo; in Habermasian terms that made possible the 1911 Revolution and, more recently, that press liberalization led to the… 
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