On Government-run Presses and Their Historical Status in Late Qing Dynasty

The official-run publishing system was the most perfect in feudal China. The publishing organizations included Wuying Palace, Capital Translation and Publishing House, Translation House of Jiangnan Manufacture Bureau, and the other official-run publishing bureau and academic centers. The journalism publishing organizations were mainly the newspapers run by various departments of central government and provinces. Though such government-run publishing organizations intended to maintain the feudal government of late Qing Dynasty, they disseminated new knowledge, inspired the masses and became an important force to drive the society forward objectively.