Abstract
PAPERS published in the treaty ports and metropolitan cities of China used to have a large circulation in the interior, but the radio has now changed all this. With a small receiving set, every small-town paper can get national and foreign news for practically nothing, for the Central News Agency, the official organ of the Central Kuomintang, makes two news broadcasts daily from Nanking. This has deprived the treaty port and metropolitan press of its greatest asset in competing with the provincial and rural press. The development of the provincial papers in recent years has been remarkable. So far as national news is concerned, they are quite readable, which means that they have improved in quality. In numbers, the increase is remarkable. According to the Chinese Post Office directory of daily newspapers for the year 1924-25, published in the China Year Book for 1925, Kiangsu had 57 dailies, of which I7 were published in Shanghai; Chekiang had Io; Chihli (now known as Hopei) 17, all published in Tientsin. Peiping, then known as Peking, the capital, led the country with 85 dailies. Hupeh had 36, including 30 papers in Hankow; Hunan 14; Fukien I3; Kwangtung 20; Kwangsi io; Shantung, including Tsingtao, 24; Shensi and Kweichow 2 each; Szechuan 15; Shansi ii; Honan 5; Kiangsi 7; Kansu i; Anhui 4; Fengtien 5 and Kirin and Heilungkiang io. Chahar, Suiyuan, Yunnan, and Chinghai had not a single daily paper. The list of daily papers compiled by the Publicity Department of the Central Kuomintang early in 1934 shows the following figures: Kiangsu I5I, not including 32 in Nanking and 44 in Shanghai; Chekiang 77; Hopei 2i, not including 77 in Peiping and 42 in Tientsin; Kwangtung 46; Shantung 27, not including i6 in Tsingtao; Hupeh 39, of which 31 are published at Hankow; Anhui 36; Kiangsi 25; Hunan 28; Szechuan i6; Honan 26; Shensi 6; Shansi 8; Kansu 5; Ninghsia and Chinghai 2 each; Suiyuan 7; Chahar 5; Kweichow 2; Kwangsi 9; Fukien I7; and Yunnan 8. Practically all of the provincial papers are subsidized sheets run either in the interest of the local Kuomintang or of those in power. The
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