Chinese modern journalism has been an integral part of Chinese wrested modernity project since its existence from 1815. This research argues that the theoretical presuppositions and journalism theory based on the western modernity experience can neither provide a theoretical and logic coherence for interpreting the particular role of Chinese modern journalism had played in the process of the China’s transition from an empire to party state, nor offer the peculiar trajectory of how it evolved and performed. There exists constant anxieties and complicated conflicts between the dual mandate of national-building and city community-making in Chinese modern journalism history, which reflected two different but contradictory modernities and continuously dominated the practice of Chinese modern journalism. This study puts forward a parallel concept of “national press” and “urban press” to examine the interaction between the two different kinds of modernity-pursuing in the specific spatial-temporal historical context.

Speaker: Bixiao He, Center for Chinese Studies

Sponsor: Center for Chinese Studies (CCS)

Event Contact: ccs-vs@berkeley.edu, 510-643-6322

Document (PDF): Prof. Bixiao He Biography

Event URL: http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=100685&date=2016-08-04&filter=Secondary%20Event%20Type&filtersel=828