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

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.