Legitimacy And Political Communication

ZengJing's Case was a significant attempted rebellion in the period of YongZheng's reign,the facts related to which revealed that the rule of Emperor YongZheng and the Qing Dynasty faced a challengeable issue about legitimacy, Attempted to put an end to this legitimacy crisis, consolidate his rule in the ideological level, Emperor YongZheng launched a nationwide propaganda campaign,the core of which was preaching the book DaYiJueMiLu stemming from ZengJing's Case,aiming to refute the ancient Han chauvinism.Almost all earlier researches about ZengJing's Case focused on the theme like court conspiracy,the socio-economic pressure or the obstacles to cultural identity. Focuses on the relationship of the legitimacy and political communication,this article attempts to explain how factors of the communication system worked in the ZengJing's Case,and specificates the certain aspects of relationship of the legitimacy and political communication,which,I hope,can enrich the political communication study,serve the political practice.By analyzing the aspects related to the case,this article concludes that there were serious obstacles and barriers in communication system , which breaded this legitimacy crisis and corrupted the preaching campaign.Further,expand from the case,this article argue that,to any regime,besides their own performance,they must deal with the obstacles and barriers in the communication system.It is a vital business to their legitimacy.