THESIS
2020
i, 10 unnumbered pages, 179 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm
Abstract
This study mainly explores how the development of modern newspapers affects political
instability in late imperial China. One part of this study examines the effect of newspaper
publishing and circulation on revolutionary movements in late Qing China by employing
a uniquely constructed dataset at the prefecture level. Empirical results indicate
newspaper has a significant and positive effect on both the outbreak of civil commotions
and the likelihood of a prefecture responding to the Wuchang uprising during the 1911
Revolution. Besides, the magnitude of newspaper affecting political instability is
considerably large. Another question this study interested is what kind of role
newspapermen or journalists played in the revolution mobilization before the outbreak
of the 1911 Revol...[
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This study mainly explores how the development of modern newspapers affects political
instability in late imperial China. One part of this study examines the effect of newspaper
publishing and circulation on revolutionary movements in late Qing China by employing
a uniquely constructed dataset at the prefecture level. Empirical results indicate
newspaper has a significant and positive effect on both the outbreak of civil commotions
and the likelihood of a prefecture responding to the Wuchang uprising during the 1911
Revolution. Besides, the magnitude of newspaper affecting political instability is
considerably large. Another question this study interested is what kind of role
newspapermen or journalists played in the revolution mobilization before the outbreak
of the 1911 Revolution. Using some individual level data collected from the
revolutionary associations in Hubei before the 1911 revolution as a case, this study
focuses on the network structure of revolutionary associations and find newspapermen
as critical figures in the revolutionary mobilization network, as they not only had more
strong ties but also occupied more structural holes in the network, which enables them
to be the key brokers to connect different groups and maintain the resilience of
revolutionary associations in the face of continuous repression and destruction by the
authority before the 1911 revolution.
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