Government Control of the Press in Modern China, 1900-1949

A pioneering study of government control of the press in Modern China, including censorship, bribery, and intimidation, in the first half of the twentieth century. Includes documentation of numerous cases of press persecution by various regimes, including the late Ch'ing dynasty, the Peking government and warlord years, the Nationalist government's Nanking decade, and the war of resistance against the Japanese and postwar periods..