The ''Peking Gazette'' was an official bulletin published with changing frequency in
Beijing
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Beijing ( ; ; ), Chinese postal romanization, alternatively romanized as Peking ( ), is the Capital city, capital of the China, People's Republic of China. It is the center of power and development of the country. Beijing is the world's Li ...
until 1912, when the
Qing dynasty
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fell and
Republican China was born. The translated name, as it is known to Western sources, comes from
Ming dynasty
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-era
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, who followed the bulletin for its political contents. The ''Peking Gazette'' became a venue for political grievances and infighting during the reign of the
Wanli Emperor
The Wanli Emperor (; 4 September 1563 – 18 August 1620), personal name Zhu Yijun (), was the 14th Emperor of the Ming dynasty, reigned from 1572 to 1620. "Wanli", the era name of his reign, literally means "ten thousand calendars". He was th ...
in the late Ming dynasty, when ''
literati'' factions would submit politicized memorials that the Emperor often abstained from reviewing. From around 1730, the publication was in Chinese called ''Jing Bao'' (京报, sometimes transliterated ''Ching Pao''), literally "the Capital Report". It contained information on court appointments, edicts, and the
official memorials submitted to the emperor, and the decisions made or deferred.
[Wolfgang Mohr, ''Die moderne chinesische Tagespresse'', vol. 1 (Wiesbaden, 1976), pp. 13–14.]
Author J.C. Sun in his book ''Modern Chinese Press'', published in 1946, said the ''Gazette'' seemed to have been
Publication type
Contrary to a sometimes voiced belief, the ''Peking Gazette'' was not a
newspaper
A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background.
Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, spor ...
, but a government bulletin, although it might be considered a distant precursor:
See also
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Tipao''
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Kaiyuan Za Bao''
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History of Chinese newspapers
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List of the earliest newspapers
References
External links
English translations from the ''Peking Gazette'' from the 1870s
Newspapers published in Beijing
Qing dynasty literature
Publications disestablished in 1912
Defunct newspapers published in China
Government gazettes
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