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Ta Kung Pao (大公報; formerly L'Impartial) is the oldest alive Chinese language newspapers in China which has based in Hong Kong and been funded by China Government after 1949. Highly regarded as the mouthpiece of China Communist Party, it covers a range of political, economic and cultural topics.

In June 2002, Ta Kung Pao newspaper celebrated its 100th birthday although there has been rumors that the China Government would cut the funding for supporting pro-communist newspapers after the handover of Hong Kong.


1 History

Ying Lianzi (英斂之) founded the newspaper in Tianjin on 17 June, 1902 in order to, in Ying's own words, 'help China become a modern and democratic nation'. Unlike its present editorial style, the paper put forward the slogan 4-No-ism" (四不主義) in the early years, pledging to say "No" to any parties, any governments, commercial companies, and any persons.

It stood up to the repression at the time, openly criticizing the Empress Dowager and the conservative leaders in China in the early 1900s, and promoted democratic reforms, pioneering the use of the vernacular language (báihuŕ). Readership fell after the Xinhai Revolution in 1911 and Wang Zhilong (王郅隆) bought it in 1916. Still, the newspaper was out of print by 1925Centuries: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s Years: 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 See also 1925 in aviation 1925 in film 1925 in literature 1925 in mu due to the lack of readership. On 1 September 1926Centuries: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s Years: 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 See also 1926 in aviation 1926 in film 1926 in literature 1926 in mu, however, Wu Dingchang (吳鼎昌), Hu Zhengzhi (胡政之), and Zhang Jiluan (張季鸞) re-established the newspaper in Tianjin. With "no party affiliation, no political endorsement, no self-promotion, no ignorance" (不黨, 不賣, 不私, 不盲) as its motto, the newspaper's popularity quickly rose again because of its sharp political commentary, especially of the Japanese as the Second Sino-Japanese War/ World War IIWorld War II was the most extensive and costly armed conflict in the history of the world, involving the great majority of the world's nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theatres, and costing tens of millions of lives. The war was fough began.

As the war waged on, the journalists escaped to other cities, such as Shanghai, Hankou, Chongqing, Guilin and Hong Kong, to continue their newspaper, but local editions were abandoned as the Japanese further their invasion. After the war was won, Wong Wan San (王芸生), the chief editor, re-established the Shanghai edition on November 1st 1945, in the original format and style of the old Shanghai edition. Later, they were planning to issue another edition for those in other provinces, including Guangzhou, but the Chinese Civil WarThe Chinese Civil War ( 1926- 1949) was a conflict in China between the Kuomintang (the Nationalist Party; KMT) and the Communist Party of China (CPC). It began with the takeover of the KMT by the right-wing General Chiang Kai-shek as well as purges of le forced this proposal to be shelved and in March 1948, the Hong Kong edition was re-issued. A major newspaper during the RepublicanThe Republic of China ( Traditional Chinese: , Simplified Chinese: ; Wade-Giles: Chung-hua Min-kuo, Tongyong Pinyin: JhongHua MinGuo, Hanyu Pinyin: Zhonghua Minguo) is a de facto sovereign state that currently administers the island groups of Taiwan, Peng years, it continued to be influential after re-publication in Hong Kong after 1949, as one of few newspapers that survived foreign invasion and civil war.


The head office of Ta Kung Pao is at Hennessy Road, Hong Kong, with many offices in China, such as Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Inner-Mongolia, Guangzhou, etc.

With the increasing popularity of internet, the paper was the earliest Chinesee newspaper to establish a website "TaKungPao.com" in 1995.






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