Press Ideology Enlightenment Before The Constitufional Reform And Modernization Of 1898 In China

The 19th-century China faced difficulties from domestic and foreign.Some intellectuals concerns about the current situation,abandons traditional Confucian and tries to learn from the West.They uses the press as a tool to dissemination of new knowledge and education for national salvation.In this process, they continues to sum up the experience of running a newspaper and deepens understanding of the press, explored the function of press,the writing style of press,the requirements of the journalists,freedom of the press and the legal of the press,forms the earliest journalism ideology in China.By the earlist press ideology,the Chinese accepted the press and journalists,Chinese press have begun to spread in modern China,the feudalism policy has been broken,new knowledge has been introduced into China,Chinese people have begun to wake up,and the legal of the press had a profound impact in China.Because of historical culture, social status, class position and other reasons,There are some characteristics of the earlist press ideology enlightenment including that the enlightenment order was from top to bottom,the enlightenment has been the impact of traditional Chinese culture,the enlightenment and the political has a close link and so on,the other hand,the press ideology enlightenment has some limitations including that the enlightenment failed to recognize the real press and the enlightenment has deviated from the masses,but the earlist press ideology enlightenment is the source of the modern journalism ideology,it has an important place in history of Chinese journalism.