The Protestants' Early Newspaper With Its Introduction Of Chinese Modern Democratic Concepts

The western invasion bombed the door of modern China's history, as early as the beginning of 19c, the Protestants came to China exerted themselves to change Chinese traditional values and cultural concepts for their Christ evangel communication, so newspapers, as a new pattern of modern medium, became one of the important means used by the Protestants in China. Because of the invasion, most Protestants shared the same benefits with the intruder from their own country, as a result, it has been a long controversial topic to judge what their newspapers had brought to our enlightening movement. I took the Protestants' special status and their certain hypocrisy into account as well as analyzed carefully the contents of the newspapers against specific background, along with the respondence by the Chinese. Try to make object conclusions about the influence made by western modern culture and democratic concepts communicated by the Protestants' newspapers.There are four chapters in all. The first chapter refers to the background and reasons for the Protestants' newspapers' appearance, including the huge change in China's modern society. Then expounded on the difference between Chinese ancient civilian thoughts and western democratic concepts.The second chapter is about the three stages of Protestants' newspapers in modern china. I emphasized the "Chinese Monthly Magazine", "Eastern and Western Ocean's Monthly Investigation", "The Chinese Serial", "Wan Kwoh Kung Pao" and so on. At the same time, I commented on the thoughts of those Protestants reflected from them.The whole third chapter is about "Wan Kwoh Kung Pao". From its contents, the main people and the newspaper's influence for modern China, I try to explain why the democratic concepts arised the huge echo.The fourth chapter talked of the actuality and root of China's dropping behind. Among the Protestants' lots of activities, holding newspaper was very significant and much special —it naturally held the mark of western invasion while it brought the light of modern civilization of freedom, equality and democracy to modern China who at that time was dominated by the long dark corrupted Federalism.