SOAS, University of London (The School of Oriental and African Studies)

The Shanghai-Beijing nexus and the Invention of the Capital Correspondent in the late Qing and Early Republic

Abstract

The talk will focus on the relationship between the journalism worlds of Shanghai and Beijing in the late Qing and early Republic, paying particular attention to the issue of what constituted a "national press" and how Shanghai commercial newspapers positioned themselves vis-a-vis, and became producers of information and knowledge about, the central government.  This subject is a piece of my larger project on the evolution of newspapers and the profession of journalism in early 20th C China.   

Speaker Biography

Associate Professor of History and Associate Director of the Center for Asian Studies at the University of Colorado.  In addition to a number or articles and book chapters, I am author of The Power of Position: Beijing University, Intellectuals, and Chinese Political Culture, 1898-1929 (Univ of California Press, 2004) and co-editor of three volumes on contemporary Chinese politics and society, the most recent being China in and beyond the Headlines (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2012).  Recently, I have been running the undergraduate program in Asian Studies at the University of Colorado and I was a National Committee on United States-China Relations Public Intellectual fellow.