| The Research of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom news reported by the Shipping list&Advertiser in China. Abstract:The Shipping list&Advertiser in China was founded in On November9,1861,ten years earlier than the Shen Bao, by Zi Lin foreign Firms. Wood (American), Fryer (British),Lin Lezhi (American) served as editor successively. the Shipping list&Advertiser in China is weekly in the initial stage. This condition was changed In May1862,and published every other day, three times a week, stoped publishing every Sunday. The innovation of this newspaper’s layout was happened on Februaryl,1868.It used the newsprint to print on both side, and used English fixed layout, enlarged the newspaper to four page, which the news and comments were in the second page, commercial information, advertisement, shipping list were in other pages.In a sense, this newspaper is very likely to the modern daily. As a result, it was called" the first new star in the Shang Hai’s Chinese newspapers". From March24,1870,it began to add concise title to every news, printed it in the biggest letters, and the text use4words. So the layout of this newspaper had the characteristics of the modern newspaper. On July2,1872,the Shipping list&Advertiser in China became a daily. As defeating by Shen Bao, it stopped publishing On December31,1872.the Shipping list&Advertiser in China is the unique Chinese commercial newspaper in Shang Hai. After the second opium war, along with the western capitalist powers expanding the aggression to Chinese economic, in order to dumping more goods to China, they urgently need to use Chinese newspaper to communicate its commercial message. It was founded to meet the western merchants’need to the commercial information. After the foundation of this newspaper, it has put the spreading business information in first place, opened up a variety of commercial information column, such as Shipping news column, the market and advertising money price column, and so on. At the beginning of its foundation, in addition to take great importance to the business information, this newspaper also concerned about the current politics. As the saying of its introduction:"The information communication is important to the business. This newspaper will publish all the information, such as politics, military, advantages and disadvantages of secular, and so on." At the beginning of its foundation, its news about the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom became the important ways to know the war for the people in Shang Hai. As a commercial paper, the reason why the Shipping list&Advertiser in China reported the news of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom quantity and continuously is contained in three aspects. Firstly, as the saying of this paper’s introduction, it would report all the things, that is about the country’s politics,military, advantages and disadvantages of secular.Second,it serviced for the interests of imperialism in China, through providing war news, helping them to trade with China. In the last, it could increase the newspaper’s revenue. Because of the limiting of the newspaper in Shang Hai, due to the people in Shang Hai are very concerned about the war at that time, so a large number of news published by this newspaper ab the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement were welcomed by the audience. This paper has made a big progress in the war news’ writing, for example, it emphasis on noutews timeliness. This conform to the principle of news writing. The news had complete news elements, and hire spies, which may be the early war news journalists, to ask for news in the front war line. While the Shipping list&Advertiser in China makes some contribution to the reporting of Chinese war news, we can’t ignore the tendentiousness of its reporting. As the paper was very selective when reported, coverage is given priority to negative on the tai ping rebels, however, given priority to positive on the government and Ever-Victorious Army; Discrimination against tai ping rebels by reporting a large number of news of tai ping rebels surrender; Beautify the imperialist aggression and for its praises. Through a careful study on the news of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement reporting by the Shipping list&Advertiser in China, we can see the position of this paper:it is to serve the imperialist aggression against China, and it is the tool of public opinion for imperialist aggression against China. |
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