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4 days agoThe World's First Newspapers May Have Appeared in Medieval China - Medievalists.net
During the Song Dynasty, official bulletins and privately produced news sheets created what some historians consider the world's first newspaper culture. Research carried out by Yangming He of Zhejiang University traces two forms of newspapers that emerged in the eleventh century, and would become extremely popular during the Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279). The first were official bulletins, known as chaobao, while the second were private, and often illegal, publications, called xiaobao. Both reached wide audiences who were eager to know what was happening with the Chinese government and other events around the country.
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