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Shi Liangcai () (January 2, 1880 – November 13, 1934) was a Chinese journalist best known for his ownership of ''Shen Bao'' and for his murder at the hands of Chiang Kai-shek's henchmen. Shi was born in Qingpu, now part of Shanghai. He studied at the Sericultural School in Hangzhou and in 1904 founded a sericultural school for women in Shanghai;〔Joan Judge, ''Print and Politics: 'Shibao' and the Culture of Reform in Late Qing China'' (Stanford University Press, 1996: ISBN 0-8047-2741-4), p. 211〕 (in 1912 the school moved to Hushuguan, a few miles northwest of Suzhou〔Lynda Schaefer Bell, ''One Industry, Two Chinas: Silk Filatures and Peasant-Family Production in Wuxi County, 1865-1937'' (Stanford University Press, 1999: ISBN 0-8047-2998-0), p. 135.〕). He lived in a graceful villa at what is now No. 257, Tongren Road, Shanghai from 1904 until his death.〔(Tour of Jingan District——The Golden Tour ).〕 Along with journalists from the Shanghai newspaper ''Shibao'' (''Eastern Times''), by 1909 "the most widely circulated newspaper in the Shanghai region,"〔William Theodore De Bary, ''Sources of East Asian Tradition: The Modern Period'' (Columbia University Press, 2008: ISBN 0-231-14323-0), p. 673.〕 Shi was a regular visitor to "an association known as the Xilou (Resting Place), which ''Shibao'' sponsored and where several items of the late-Qing reformist agenda were argued and shaped."〔Perry Link, review of Joan Judge, ''Print and Politics'', ''Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies'' 58 (1998): 581.〕 When he took over ''Shen Bao'' in 1912, he furthered its liberal orientation; he also began a career as a press magnate, and from 1927, he bought up most of the stock of ''Shishi'' and ''Xinwen'' newspapers.〔 He also expanded his range of business interests, with investments in cotton textiles. He was the leader of the Jiangning ''tongxianghui'' (native place association) until his death; such associations in this period frequently "provided shelter and resources for anti-Japanese activists," and this one did not officially call a meeting between 1928 and 1933 because of a desire to avoid having to comply with oppressive Kuomintang regulations.〔Gail Hershatter, ''Remapping China: Fissures in Historical Terrain'' (Stanford University Press, 1996: ISBN 0-8047-2509-8), pp. 167 and 311.〕 "In the 1930s, Shi was a strong supporter of the Human Rights Defence Alliance established by Madam Soong Qing Ling, the second wife of revolutionary leader Dr Sun Yat-sen, with Cai Yuanpei and Lu Xun."〔Patsy Yang and Jolin Ng, "(Cheers for favorite old bars and some newbies in Tongren Road )," ''Shanghai Daily'', July 13, 2009.〕 He "had remained aloof from the initial phase of the Anti-Japanese National Salvation Association promoted in July 1931 by the Shanghai KMT and its auxiliary Chamber of Commerce,"〔Donald A. Jordan, ''China's Trial by Fire: The Shanghai War of 1932'' (University of Michigan Press, 2001: ISBN 0-472-11165-5), p. 70.〕 but after the Mukden Incident in September he became more involved, and in January 1932 "offered his nonpartisan leadership over a reconstituted anti-Japanese association and use of his ''Shenpao'' newspaper."〔Jordan, ''China's Trial by Fire'', p. 69.〕 A courageous man, he responded to his political enemies with the saying, "You have a gun. I have a pen."〔Gao Yu, "(Courage Acceptance Speech )," 2006.〕 His opposition to power had fatal consequences: The killing caused a tremendous public outcry — the entire Municipal Council resigned in protest — and the provincial governor of Zhejiang, Lu Diping, was eventually forced to resign. ==References== 〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Shi Liangcai」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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