A Research On Liang Qichao's Newspaper Editing Ideas And Achievements By Investigating His Practice In The Chinese Progress

Liang Qichao(1873-1929),was a famous statesman and press leader in modern China. He struggled for the better future of China throughout his life and newspaper was always one of his most useful means to propagate his revolutionary theories and to rouse and unite the people.As we all know, up till modern times in China, professional newspaper institutions came into being and professional people began to work for newspapers. Liang Qichao was a person with initiating contributions in Chinese modern newspaper history. His work as an editor in "The Chinese Progress" made him well known both in newspaper and political fields. Therefore, the experience in "The Chinese Progress" is significant to Liang himself and to Chinese newspaper history as well.Before "The Chinese Progress" is printed, Liang Qichao was active in giving his opinions on how to orient the paper wholly. And especially his advices on the selection of the content, its target, the printing period and the cooperation in work ensured the advanced attitudes and success of the paper. As a prime editor, his duty was to write editorial articles, decide the columns and annotate the translated articles. He worked heart and soul without any resent. During the edition of the paper, he paid more attention to the readers' suggestions and the copyright conversation. Meanwhile, he initiated a supplementary column. All that he did are rather rare in the newspaper field of that time.The following are Liang Qichao's great achievements working in "The Chinese Progress". First, he bravely gave his comments on the newspapers phenomena at that time, whose soul is that "The papers should be beneficial to the nation." And he emphasized the communicating effect of the newspaper in the development of a nation. Second, taking "The Chinese Progress" as a battlefield, he propagated the revolutionaryideas, which not only united the revolutionary forces but also made the Chinese culture market change greatly. Third, he created a wholly new literary style named "Shiwu Style". It focused on the currents in content and it was written in easy Chinese with strong sincere feelings and appropriate rhetoric full of variety as well. It fascinated a lot of readers and was very fashionable at that time.Liang Qichao's editor work in "The Chinese Progress" enlightens us in many ways. For example, we should reinforce our consciousness of serving the readers, cultivate a sensitive quality to insight the current, and learn his spirit of being diligent in the newspaper work and his revolutionary spirit of insisting on the truth without surrender to the authority.In a word, it is a crucial period in Liang Qichao's life when he worked in "The Chinese Progress". From that time on, what he did began to deeply affect Chinese society. It is he who enlightened the contemporary consciousness of Chinese people. And what he did speeded up the breakdown of the feudal empire and accelerated the construction of the democracy power. Liang Qichiao's newspaper practices and theories in this period when he worked in "The Chinese Progress" will be a forever encourage for the new comers of Chinese newspaper.