Research On Newspapers In British Leased Territory Weihaiwei (1898-1930)

The journalism history of weihaiwei started from The Weihaiwei Lyre, which was the first newspaper in the period of British leased territory Weihaiwei. The publishing system of British newpaper guaranteed the development of Weihaiwei newspaper. In 1923, the first Chinese newspaper of Weihaiwei appeared. Four years later, Sun Hanchuan founded The Post of Weihaiwei, which had a wider range influence in Weihaiwei. This newspaper formed the line of journalism history of Weihaiwei under British rule. This thesis is to analyse the development background, publication, operation and characteristic contents of The Weihaiwei Lyre andThe Post of Weihaiwei, and draw the detail information of newspaper development status of Weihaiwei under British rule.Introducation is to summarise the purpose, significance and review of the research, then point out the uniqueness of the topic. Profile of newspapers in weihaiwei under British rule" relates the history of British leased territory of Weihaiwei, its politics, society and culiture situation. This part also relates the newspaper development status in Shandong province, even in whole China, as to know the exact information of newspaper in Weihaiwei under British rule."Study on The Weihaiwei Lyre" relates basic information of publication and distribution of The Weihaiwei Lyre, the innovation of this part is the defination of community newspaper of The Weihaiwei Lyre. This part focuses on news report and service information of The Weihaiwei Lyre. Study on The Post of Weihaiwei confirms development background and publication of The Post of Weihaiwei. We define The Post of Weihaiwei is a private commercial newspapers.On this part we focuse on its editorial and social news. The final part relates Lockhart and Johnston, administrators of Weihaiwei under British rule, who had great deal with the The Post of Weihaiwei.