Abstract:

The modern media, especially the publishing, played an important role in the early propagation of Communist Manifesto in China. Focusing on the propagation of the content of Marxism, previous research has overlooked the activities of media and related participants. With more unearthed documents and new research methods, the research of the development of Marxism in China from the perspective of mass communication is quite promising. This thesis studies the publishing and propagation of Communist Manifesto in the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, analyses the characteristics of the propagation in different periods, examines the function of media technology and media industry in these periods, and probes into the construction of the identities of propagators and receivers under the influence of modern publishing as a new type of media. In this way, we can obtain a comprehensive understanding of the interactive relationship between modern media and the propagation of Communist Manifesto in China.