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Rudolf G. Wagner, editor. Joining the Global Public: Word, Image, and City in Early Chinese Newspapers, 18701910. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2007. ix, 249+ pp. Hardcover $25.95, isbn-13: 978-0-79147117-3. The last three decades of the nineteenth century and the first decade of the twentieth century, the time frame chosen for this book, was for China a time of unprecedented humiliation by foreign powers and a weak central goverment in the aftermath of two Opium Wars. Nonetheless, that time span also meant, in many respects, a new chance for China and the Chinese. The present book focuses on one of these new challenges in Chinese history, that of the development of the news media, a chapter of Chinese history that has been badly neglected by China scholars. Rudolf G. Wagner points out in his preface that the essays collected in this volume are the fruits of the research group Structure and Development of the Chinese Public Sphere, established in Heidelberg in 1993. The questions discussed by the members were, as can be concluded from Wagner's introduction, much inspired by Jürgen Habermas's study on the transformation of the public sphere in Europe. According to Habermas, in late
China Review International – University of Hawai'I Press
Published: Oct 31, 2009
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