Postal And Telegraph Censorship Of Nanjing National Government

Modern postal and telegraph service of China grown up in the late Qing dynasty, developed in the Republic of China. The postal service includes delivering packages, circulars, press agents, etc. The telegraph service divides into officer,news,etc. In one word, the postal and telegraph service became an important means to transmit information. The Nanjing Nationalist Government promulgated a range of regulations, and established a system of agencies, in order to establish a set of censorship. The censorship of post and telegraph of the Nanjing nationalist government is the paper’s topics. This paper researches policies, implementation, significance and limitation of the censorship. Through the study on the censorship, we can discovery the information control, research the censorship of press of Nanjing Nationalist Government.This paper is divided into five chapters; the first chapter suggests the historical background of the Nanjing Nationalist Government’s postal and telegraph censorship. Firstly, explaining the development situation of the postal and telegraph service of China. Secondly, presenting postal and telegraph inspection of the Qing government and the northern government. In addition, this chapter also analyses the social environment about the period of the Nanjing national government. In one word, those are the background and causes for the Nanjing Nationalist Government to establish the censorship of post and telegram.The second chapter analyzes the regulations about the postal and telegraph inspection We can appear the main content of the postal and telegraph censorship system concretely and clearly, including the formulation and revision of those regulations. In the legislative ideology, those regulations are restrictive. The postal and telegraph inspection by the special military activity period became into government routine censorship. Then, this chapter talks over particularities, summarizes targets and regulations of the postal and telegraph censorship.The third chapter mainly through the investigation of the history restores the status of implementation of the censorship. This chapter relegates qualified institution and enforcement agencies, illustrate responsibilities of personnel and organization, interpretation process of the postal and telegraph inspection. Further more, this paper appears the postal and telegraph inspection work intuitively through summarizing data and case studies.The fourth chapter focuses on discussing the relationship between postal and telegraph censorship and press censorship. The two closely related in policy, mechanism, standard and business, especially in business. Then this chapter tries to appear the implementation of press inspection work, and then, reviewing biases in the inspection and impact for the news publishing.In the end, this article analyzes the postal and telegraph censorship system’s significance, limitation in an objective and fair position.