The History of Chinese News Media (Before 1949) is a new work about Chinese journalism before 1949 from the perspective of professional and ontological journalism, based on the author's years of teaching and research on the history of journalism at home and abroad. The book is divided into three parts, the first part is the ancient history of journalism; The second part is the history of news media since modern times. The third part presents the evolution history of the core value elements of journalism itself.

The innovation of this book lies in that it sublates the framework of revolutionary history that is mostly used in current journalism history textbooks and returns to the journalism itself. From this perspective, it examines the development of Chinese journalism itself and Outlines how the journalism, as a political, cultural and scientific and technological environment, was gradually constructed in the historical environment.