| "The Beijing Special Newsletter ",which emerged in the special context of news style, is in line with the temporal political change. After Yuan Shikai became the head of the Republican regime, the country’s political center of gravity then moved northward, as national news distribution center is in need of a middleman to obtain information. Ups and downs of the current situation and the blurred political situation urgently needed to be passed through the newsprint to the public in order to set the record straight. Consequently,"the Beijing Special Newsletter" and the international situation of the Republic of China would collide with each other in politics, forming a news compilation of interaction between the news coverage and the public opinion on politics of the situation. This essay discusses what kind of political landscape has been constructed through "the Beijing special newsletter "of Shun Pao to promote communication.Shun Pao, as one of the earliest newspapers in the modern history of newsprint of China, witnessed the development of modern Chinese society and political change and this newspaper is the main basis for the study of modern Chinese history. In October1912, Shi Liangcai took over the Shun Pao and began a radical reform. In April1912, the government moved to Beijing, and, in August of the same year, the Shun Pao began to publish the special newsletter. Then, the domestic political situation witnessed the republican constitution, Yuan Shikai centralized authoritarian, the restoration of the monarchy and warlord complicated situation. In a different political context, in the Beijing correspondent’s articles, it presented a different political scene for readers. Engraved on the political landscape of the depiction anchored,"the Beijing Special Newsletter "settled in the early Republican political communications and news media relations. This essay divides by the time of qualitative changes in the political system respectively to outline the dynasty political landscape in "the Beijing Special Newsletter" at three time stages.The first part starts from the macro-political context and newspaper environment, and the essay expands on the founding of the special newsletter and the Shun Pao reform and explores the background of the founding of the newsletter and the development of the Beijing Special Newsletter of Shun Pao."Shanghai-based" Modern Newspaper pattern formed the ground for the birth of the special newsletter with the focus on the ups and downs of the political situation in the early Republican. As one of the major newspapers enterprise in Shanghai, the Shun Pao managed to remain the bellwether of the public opinion and catch up with the trend of social reform and changes to become a press of the elite in a leading position of the history.The second part centers on the period of republican political system when The Beijing Special Newsletter of Shun Pao constructed the current political landscape to expand investigations. The fall of the Qing court and the beginning of the Republic relaxed political environment to usher in a golden age of the Newspaper Industry. The Shun Pao preliminary design of special newsletter, as a mouthpiece of the political news in this period, described the political landscape under a republican constitution. The "Second Revolution" marked a turning point in the country’s political chaos, and the republican constitution was gradually twisted, which silenced the special newsletter for a short time.In the third part, the essays focuses on special newsletter of Yuan Shikai autocratic reign. During this period, the newsletters were written by Huang Yuansheng, who was known as the founder of the newsletter and once was a reporter of the Shanghai Times in Beijing. Huang Yuansheng described Yuan Shikai autocratic politics as vague. Due to Yuan Shikai imprisonment of speech, Yuansheng News Compilation took a cautious attitude towards politics expressed in an ambiguous rebuke, and real political situation constrainted Yuansheng’s voice in the newsletters. After the open restoration of the monarchy, the newsletters were forbidden.In the fourth, after Huang Yuansheng, the reporter Shao Piaoping acted as the successor the special newsletters. In this stage the Chinese regime was dominated by the warlords control and entered a period of warlord rule. Different from the of Huang Yuansheng period which was cautious, Shao Piaoping exposed unrestrained loudly in the face of dark Hunkui warlord. From struggle from internal affairs to foreign relations, the Shao Piaoping pen presented a chaotic and corrupt political drama one after another in "the special newsletter", which truthfully portrayed a real picture of the political situation.The epilogue compares "the Beijing Special Newsletter" to a mirror, which recorded and describeed the reality of the political landscape to reflect and guide the political opinion. This part also presents an analysis of the newspaper featuring "the Beijing Special Newsletter", journalists and the motivation and constraint of the public opinion environment on political opinion. |
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