Between Officials And The Public: Suzhou People Post Office And The Government-run Game In Suzhou (1896-1934)

In this paper,the postal archives and the postal office files in the Suzhouarchives,the local chronicles of Suzhou, the newspapers and periodicals published inthe period of Republic of China as the core data.The game between the national postaloffice and the civil postal office in the area of Suzhou as a leading clue.The paperrespectively to explore the development overview organization system,businesssituations of the national postal office and the civil postal office in the area ofSuzhou,and attempt to recreate the original appearance of two different informationdelivery systems.On this basis,the paper mainly analysis of the game process betweenthe suzhou national postal office and the suzhou civil postal office.Since Modern times,many towns in the area of coastal and riverside Insuccession became treaty ports.The business dealings Very frequent and theexchanges increased day by day.The civil postal office as a private informationtransfer agency founded the important towns in the jiangnan,and extended to theMainland with the Mainland gradually was opened.With the western modern postalsystem Introduced to China, In particular,Since the establishment of the Qing newnational postal office in1896,the national postal office and the civil postal office all asthe information transfer system gradually from cooperation to competition. Especiallyafter the establishment of the Nanjing National Government in1927, in the case ofNational Government expected to unify mail right and control the flow ofinformation channels,the postal office took various measures to limit the civil postaloffice,Therefore, the contradiction between the two is more sharp.In the area ofSuzhou,Suzhou post office relied on the National Government,uncompromisinglyforbade civil postal office to smuggle mail and promulgated methods of the civilpostal office to registere and license to control and suppress the civil postal office.Inaddition,the national postal office efforted to self-improvement,Suzhou civil postaloffice relied on Suzhou Chamber of Commerce Constantly to put pressure on theNational Government,they engaged in a fierce game.Finally,the national postal officeoutlawed the civil postal office. The pape try to analyze the decline of Modern civil postal office and the rise ofModern post office as a starting point to probe into the Complex relationship betweentradition and modernize.