The Political Newspaper In The Republic

By focusing on "republic", the fundamental idea in late Qing’s history of political ideas, this dissertation investigates how this political modernism discourse embodies in Chinese political press such as "Shu San Min" through its ideas and actions. Also, it tries to reveal how the idea of republic evolved in the political opinion arena does.By putting Shu San Min as a prime example, especially during the period of anti-Manchurian and then republic turn, this dissertation describes its transformation in identity orientation, political identification, and institutionalization of its journalism practice and the political struggle afterwards. In the moment of republic, by making the Oriental Times as its republic imagination, Min Li Pao exhibited the culture of republic which includes independent identity, public tribune, and rational rhetoric and used the principle of republic as its political criteria. Meanwhile, radical revolutionary political culture revealed its hegemony of narrative and later called for a resurrection of revolution.However, the difficult transformation experienced by Min Li Pao indicates the complicated situation in which republic took hold. As Yuan Shikai established its authoritative politics, political press had to decide its own path:some of the political press, especially those in Beijing, exhibited a negative strategy of survival; revolutionary press thrived to construct its party paper characteristics and its identity as mouthpiece; Magazines like Jia Yin started to reflect the idea of republic from the perspective of nationalism and this type of cultural transformation and return of enlightenment is was the herald of new culture movement.