Description: Peking Gazette in Late Imperial China : State News and Political Authority, Paperback by Mokros, Emily, ISBN 0295748796, ISBN-13 9780295748795, Brand New, Free shipping in the US "In the Qing dynasty (1), China experienced far greater access to political information than suggested by the blunt measures of control and censorship employed by modern Chinese regimes. A tenuous partnership between the court and the dynamic commercial publishing enterprises of late imperial China enabled the publication of gazettes in a wide range of print and manuscript formats. For both domestic and foreign readers these official gazettes offered vital information about the Qing state and itsactivities, transmitting state news across a vast empire and beyond. And the most essential window onto Qing politics was the Peking Gazette, a genre that circulated globally over the course of the dynasty. This illuminating study presents a comprehensive history of the Peking Gazette and frames it as the cornerstone of a Qing information policy that, paradoxically, prized both transparency and secrecy. Gazettes gave readers a glimpse into the state's inner workings but also served as a carefully curatedform of public relations. Historian Emily Mokros draws from international archives to reconstruct who read the gazette and how they used it to guide their interactions with the Chinese state. The work begins with the seventeenth-century restoration of court gazettes as instruments of empire by the early Qing state and ends with their presumed disappearance in 1907, superseded by a new breed of government gazettes that drew on international models for public information. Her research into the Peking Gazette's evolution over more than two centuries is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the relationship between media, information, and state power"--
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Number of Pages: 280 Pages
Publication Name: Peking Gazette in Late Imperial China : State News and Political Authority
Language: English
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Publication Year: 2021
Subject: Media Studies, General, Asia / China, World / Asian
Item Height: 0.7 in
Item Weight: 13.6 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Emily Mokros
Subject Area: Law, Political Science, Social Science, History
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
