The Research On Modern & Contemporary China's Publishing Law

History is a mirror of reality. Old China's semi-feudal society determines that the freedom of press could not truly be realized, and publishing law and regulation tends to be declined as a class's ruling and struggling tool. After 5.4 campaign in 1919, Marxism and west democracy disseminated further in China, despite the press and publishing sector's a series of arduous fighting for the freedom of press, the social nature of China determines that publishing law and regulation is still the "rule of ruling class." After the founding of New China, China's publishing law and regulation construction has always forged ahead amid twists and turns. While The People's Republic of China's publishing Law (Draft) died in 1994, a framework including "one law and five cases" has basically been constructed forming a more scientific publishing law and regulation system.The article is divided into five parts:the first part includes a few basic questions on the publishing law, giving a clear history of staging, clearing different concepts, and laying a solid theoretical basis for further discussion; the second part is about modern China's publishing law and regulation(1919-1949), and analyzes the publication law during the period from Northern government to Nanjing national government, and comes to summarize the basic characteristics in modern China; the third part starts from the founding of New China till contemporary publishing law, revives the development process, sums up contemporary publishing law's legal sources and main content, and concludes the positive role; the fourth part discusses on the need for a special publishing law from three angles, including the internal power, external power and its difficulties and comes to the conclusion that legalization is the inevitable trend of the publishing law development; the fifth part-building on the needs of our country's publishing law notes that a few basic questions, points out clearly the guiding principles, establishes sound relationships between the Communist party policies and the publication law, and achieves a scientific, rational, perfect and efficient institutional mechanism for legislation. This is the meaning of studying modern & contemporary China's publishing law.This article focuses on the macro level to explore the law of publishing in China from history to reality to achieve a more comprehensive, systematic analysis on this research and make a clearance of some theoretical misunderstandings and some subjective, emotional understandings.