Anhui Modern Newspapers And The Geographical Spatial Imagination Of Anhui Province(from1904to1911)

Anhui modern newspapers started from the Reform of Late Qing Dynasty. Their overall development was later than that of Beijing and Shanghai newspapers. From1904to1911, due to the imbalance of social and economic development in Anhui Province, Anhui modern newspapers mainly developed in Anqing, the political center and Wuhu, the economical center but appeared later in the northern part of Huai River. As products of specific geographical space, Anhui modern newspapers were closely related with their provincial space. In terms of geographical space, there is a huge difference between the northern and southern parts of Anhui. Through the digging of the media function of passing and reaching message up and down, inside and outside, opening ethos and enlightening people's intelligence, Anhui modern newspapers also played an important role in Anhui provincial space construction. This thesis does research on Anhui modern newspapers under the framework of interaction between newspapers and their geographical space. Through the interpretation of newspaper text, this thesis attempts to discuss the geographical features of Anhui modern newspapers and their construction and integration of the landscape of Southern Anhui and Northern Anhui in three chapters.Chapter One takes Anqing and Wuhu as the main line, aiming at working out the relationship between Anhui provincial space and the geographical distribution of Anhui modern newspapers and carding the developing state of Anhui modern newspapers from1904-1911. Anhui modern newspapers mainly distributed in Anqing and Wuhu. The different municipal orientation of Anqing and Wuhu shaped the regional styles of newspapers in the two cities to certain extent.Chapter Two mainly analyzes the role Anhui modern official newspapers played in promoting local affairs. Associated with the special historic time and space in late Qing dynasty, this thesis focuses on the New Deal in Late Qing Dynasty and explores the role "Anhui Official Newspaper" and "Anhui Education Magazine" played in promoting the local affairs, specifically the two newspapers'local consciousness and national horizon in promoting the New Deal. Chapter Three selects Anhui modern vernacular Chinese newspapers as the researching objects and discusses the different manifestations of regional landscape of the northern and southern part of Anhui in "Anhui vernacular Chinese periodical" and "Anhui colloquial periodical". Associated with the modern nationalistic context, this thesis also shows the complex role Anhui modern newspapers played in the space integration between the northern and southern parts of Anhui province in the dimensions of space and time.Combining the demonstration in the previous three chapters, the concluding part further expounds the interactive relationship between Anhui modern newspapers and the geographical space of Anhui province. As a product of specific geographical space, Anhui modern newspapers had regional characteristics, whose manifestation was related to the difference in time and space of southern and northern parts of Anhui. At the same time, as a part of the social organism, through promoting local modernization and cultivating the local people's intelligence, Anhui modern newspapers constructed a new united provincial time and space, which had a profound influence on people's cognition of provincial conditions of Anhui, even of the country and the society. The thesis studies Anhui modern newspapers from the perspective of the relationship between newspapers and geographical space and emphasizes the sense of space and the regional characteristics of Anhui modern newspapers. It will provide a new research perspective for the local journalistic history.