The Dissemination And Evolution Of The Thought Of Western News In Modern China

This article cuts in from the background of the introduction of Western news thoughts in modern China.Combing and summarize its communication process and basic content in China,and based on the change of social thoughts.Dividing each of the three periods to analyze the process and its evolution of western news thought,summarize its characteristics and interpretation the cause of difference.At the same time,the purpose of this paper is to provide a new perspective for the history of modern Chinese journalismFirstly this article discusses the background of modern China.Compared with the speech prohibition policy in the early Qing dynasty and the provide wide opportunities for airing views in the late Qing dynasty.Secondly,This article is based on the communication activities of two types of communicators to investigate the beginning of the introduction of western news thought.Including:The personal experience of early ambassadors,scholars' translation of western works,revealing the way that journalists and intellectuals receive western news ideas from multiple anglesThe second part of this paper through the late qing dynasty and early republic of China newspaper activities to demonstrate the dissemination and evolution of western journalistic thought in China.First of all,this paper studies the press activities of the missionary group,analyzing the development and spread content and historical influence of missionary newspapers in modern China.The second,this article is based on Chinese journalists after the opium war,arranges western news thought's spreading content in The Chinese Seria?The Shanghai Serial?Universal Circulating Herald?Multinational Communique?The Chinese Progress and Hong Kong ta kung pao separately.This article summarizes the evolution of western journalistic thought in China in the late Qing dynasty and the early republic of China:After new thought spread into China in the Late Qing Dynasty,it experienced early reform period,Reform Constitution period,democratic revolution period.Under the early reform trend,Western news thoughts carry the hope of the country's prosperity.Wrapped in the ideal of "China learning for the system,Western learning for use" Under the trend of reform and constitutionalism,Western news thoughts have been given the responsibility of saving the world.Under the trend of democratic revolution,Western news thoughts have changed to anti-feudal revolutionary weapons.In the last part,This article tries to start with the similarities and differences of Modern Western news and Modern China news,focus on analyzing localizationfeatures,and explore the reasons.Modern China Western News Thoughts Spread into China in specific time background and social Conditions,and finally evolved.Its four characteristics:First,the color of political tools;Second,it contains the traditional Chinese culture;Third,emphasize the moral attributes;Fourth,a Chinese and Western cultural concept that runs through a reconciliation.Investigating the cause,It is mainly reflected in the three differences between China and the West: political background,value orientation and historical tradition.By the analysis of historical data and unscramble,it comes to a conclusion that the evolution of western journalistic thought in China played a special role in the development of the press in the late Qing dynasty and the early republic of China.Chinese modern news thought is imported from the west,Like a seed buried in the soil of traditional Chinese culture,the press becomes a battleground for ideas.But news thoughts under different ideological trends are constantly changing on this "battlefield".In Chinese modern news thought,the press has always been regarded as a vehicle to promote political and social progress.The mission of press freedom comes from the mission of The Times,A constant thread runs through it all the time:carry the interests of the nation in our hearts.At the same time,because of the lack of rational spirit in modern China,Chinese intellectuals always try to incorporate advanced western ideas into Chinese traditional culture to find the answer.Although there was no news thought of its own in modern China.But the evolution of western journalistic thought combines traditional culture and people-oriented thought with western political and economic theoriesAlthough the press of Late Qing Dynasty and the Early Republic of China does not fully realize its most essential properties and functions.But at the crucial moment of the survival of the nation,it also fulfilled many missions.The news thought localization experienced a process from fragmentation to system,from rough to deep.It is a living testimony of the inner struggles and pain,the loss to the West to study and reflection,and the inheritance or abandone of the traditional thought of the modern Chinese.