Reporter Xing Yuxi

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 22-More than a dozen experts on Chinese journalism history and modern history from China Academy of Social Sciences, Peking University, China Renmin University, Beijing Broadcasting Institute and other units recently described the shock to the study of Chinese journalism history written by Singaporean scholar Zhuo Nansheng. The Chinese version of the book, published by China Social Sciences Publishing House, meets readers today.

Because many original materials of China's early newspaper development have been lost, a few survivors are mostly dusty in overseas book collection institutions. For a long time, domestic scholars have mostly quoted Ge's History of China Newspaper when studying the history of Chinese journalism. As the foundation work of Chinese journalism history, many arguments in this book are almost "conclusive". Starting from the 1970s, Zhuo Nansheng visited libraries, universities, book collectors and second-hand bookstores in Britain, America, Hong Kong and Taiwan, and made many new discoveries. The History of Modern Newspaper Industry in China, written by him, made an in-depth comment on the representative China newspapers from 18 15 to 1874, revealed the complicated course of the emergence, evolution and initial development of China newspapers, and corrected the mistakes of Ge's works on some important issues with rich original materials. In recent years, some of his papers published in Japanese academic journals have been translated into China, causing great repercussions, and some newly published works have been rewritten on the basis of their new discoveries. The Chinese version supplements the photocopies of 79 Chinese-language daily newspapers, whose predecessor was discovered by Zhuo Nansheng in the United States. It has great research value.

The Historical Evolution of China Newspaper Industry

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