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Frontiers of History in China 2014, 9(3) traditional gentry class) in promoting social reform at county and town levels of Chinese society. In short, this volume sheds important new light on tabloid journalism and its various roles and meanings in the broader context of China's social transformation in the first half of the twentieth century. Its major contribution to the scholarship on this subject lies in the depth and concreteness of the individual cases that are studied. The volume presents a historical perspective to understand the tabloid press, and all the studies draw on an extensive use of primary source materials. Moreover, this volume contributes to our understanding of the larger picture of culture and society in Republican China. Many of the articles provide nuanced discussions on familiar themes including the modern transformation of literati and intelligentsia, gender, popular culture, and censorship. A problem this volume seems to have failed to address is how to define xiaobao in the Chinese context. While most articles deal with "authentic" tabloids (e.g., Jingbao, entertainment-park newspapers, and square-size weeklies), the newspapers studied by Paules and Sato may confuse readers and prompt them to ask what Chinese definitions of xiaobao were and how
Frontiers of History in China – Brill
Published: Sep 23, 2014
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