Cover
Table of Contents
A Note on Romanization
Acknowledgements
Edmund S.K. Fung
Introduction
Press Freedom: Word and Concept
Towards an Understanding of Conceptual Change
Outline of the Book
China in a Transitional Period
The Earliest Writing on Press Freedom
Writings of Western Protestant Missionaries
Writings of Chinese Students in the West
Writings of Chinese Envoys
2. Chuban Ziyou: The Invention of a Neologism
Liang Qichao and the Birth of Chuban Ziyou
Chinese Students in Japan and Their Introduction to Press Freedom
The Problematic Origins of Chinese Press Freedom
3. The Liminal Landscape
The Pragmatic View
Press Freedom as a Civil Right
The New Era
Sun Yat-sen’s Anti-Liberal Thoughts
Sun Yat-sen Worship
The San-min Doctrine of Journalism
5. The Empty Phrase and Popular Ignorance
Press Freedom in Constitutional Documents
Press Freedom in School Textbooks
Violent Mobs and Ignored Freedom
6. Conceptual Debates in the 1920s and 1930s
Minquan (People’s Rights, 民權) or Human Rights?
Press Freedom versus Press Control
7. The Last Call for Press Freedom
The Constitutional Movement and Democratic Propositions
The Freedom of News Movement
The Fear of Communist Publications
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index