ABSTRACT
A large number of industrial products were sold to China, and missionaries and businessmen from the West started to set up newspapers and periodicals. As a result, the era of modern newspapers in China began. Newspapers could be divided, according to language and function, into Chinese religious newspapers, foreign commercial newspapers, and Chinese commercial newspapers. In the early Qing Dynasty, Western missionaries attempted to use newspapers to preach. Due to the great differences between the Eastern and Western cultures and the monotheistic beliefs emphasized by the Christian doctrines, Christianity encountered many difficulties before it gained popularity in China. "A Simple Explanation on Journalism" was the first article on journalism in a modern Chinese newspaper. Chinese business newspapers first appeared in Hong Kong in the 1840s. Since the 1920s, foreign newspapers were the first set up in Guangzhou as it was the only place where foreigners were allowed to reside and trade before the Opium War.
