The Rumor Politics and Cultural Operation

Abstract: Under the leadership of Zhang Yuanji and Wang Yinian, the China Times (《时事新报》) was originally created to inculcate the knowledge of national politics and law and prepare for constitutionalism in late Qing Dynasty. However, under the influence of Wuchang Uprising, with the change of mind of Zhang Jian, Zhang Yuanji and other people and the internal division of the Constitutional Party, it was one of the newspapers in Shanghai which actively participated in the revolutionary propaganda to stir up the revolutionary tide, especially cooperated with the Commercial Press to edit and publish a large number of books and periodicals, such as Revolutionary Documents, Chinese Revolutionary Records and Revolutionary Party Biography, which had a great social impact at that time. In addition to the ideological revolutionary tendency of the Constitutional Party and the strong political atmosphere in Shanghai, it is necessary to give full consideration to the pressure of the rumor politics put by revolutionary party on the China Times and Commercial Press at that time. In the press ecology created by the revolutionary pressure, the China Times and Commercial Press not only proved their political posturing and revolutionary tendency through their own cultural operation, but also relieved the huge pressure brought by the rumor politics of the revolutionaries.