Editors and Outrages : Banditry-Related Editorials from the Dagong bao and the Shen bao,1912-1937

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• Both Western and Chinese scholars have examined various aspects of republican-period Chinese banditry, but no systematic attempt has been made toexplore the reaction of China's public opinion to the country's descent to thestate of "bandit republic". Since newspapers can usually be taken as reliableindicators of the state of public opinion, at least among the educated populationof the cities, the authors focus on the editorial stand on banditry taken by twoof China's major independent newspapers, the Tianjin Dagong bao (大公報)and the Shanghai Shen bao (申報).The present article is a preliminary analysis, together with a comprehensivelist of banditry-related editorials from the two papers spanning the years 1912to 1934. It finds that, while both papers took a serious view of the problem,and increasingly assumed the role of independent adviser to the governmenton "bandit-suppression", their focus and the solutions they offered tended todiffer as a result of things like geographical location and their proximity to politicalcentres. The article also finds that the birth of social consciousness inChinese journalism was a reflection of the transformation of Chinese intellectualsfollowing the abolishment of the old examination system, which allowedthem for the first time to take up a position of "scholars critiquing politics".In the end, however, all the proposals offered by the two papers for puttingEditors and Outrages- 99 -an end to China's bandit problem foundered as did every other effort to transformthe country into a modern state. With various kinds of social and politicalupheaval rocking the country incessantly throughout the years of the Republic,the most rational and ostensibly practical proposals became no more thanwishful thinking until the advent in 1949 of a new central government that wasas efficient as it was ruthless.

• 桃山学院大学の論文
• 2006-12-05

著者

• Xu Youwei

  上海大学歴史系

• Wu Leyang

  上海大学歴史系碩士研究生

• Philip Billingsley

  桃山学院大学文学部

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