Cheng Shewo (成舍我) was China’s first and only media magnate. Over more than 7 decades, he illustrated the power of the press by launching the Republic of China’s most progressive and independent newspapers, and ensuring their future through the founding of schools of journalism.
成舍我是中国第一位也是唯一的媒体大亨。 70多年来，他通过创办中华民国最进步和最独立的报纸，并通过建立新闻学院确保其未来，展示了新闻界的力量。
Born in Nanjing on 28 August, 1898, Cheng’s future was set in stone from a fairly young age. With the family hailing from Hunan Province and his father an officer, Cheng would soon too leave the nest, at the tender age of 14.
Cheng于1898年8月28日出生在南京，从很小的时候起，他的未来就被固定在石头上。 由于这个家庭来自湖南省，他的父亲是一名军官，Cheng也很快就离开了巢穴，年仅14岁。
Soon he was publishing his own articles and, but a few years later, in 1917, moved to Beijing to major in Chinese Literature at Peking University, from where he graduated in 1921.
很快，他开始发表自己的文章，但几年后，1917年，他搬到北京，在北京大学主修中国文学，并于1921年毕业。
From 1924 and over the next decade, Cheng successively founded a number of well-known papers. The first of these, the ”Evening World News” (世界晚报), he ran out of his own house in a traditional Beijing Hutong (手帕胡同 35号) off Chongwen Men Avenue and just inside what is now the city’s 2nd Ring Road.
从1924年到随后的十年，程相继创办了许多知名报纸。 其中第一个是《世界晚报》，他从崇文门大道旁的传统北京手帕胡同35号的房子跑出来，就在现在的城市第二环路内。
In these frugal times, even Cheng’s wife helped out, as the newspaper editor’s able-bodied assistant.
在这个节俭的时代，即使是程的妻子也帮了忙，作为报纸编辑的健全助手。
In Nanjing, Cheng established the “Minsheng News” (民生报) and the “Li Pao” (立报) in Shanghai. While the latter would be well known for its slogan, “5 Minutes to Know the World”, the publications at large showcased Cheng as a champion of unbiased reporting, with fair commentary that was well informed. In short, Cheng defied the powers that be.
在南京，程在上海建立了《民生报》和《立报》。 虽然后者以其口号“5分钟了解世界”而闻名，但出版物将Cheng展示为公正报道的拥护者，并有充分知情的公平评论。 简而言之，Cheng藐視了权力。
Almost needless to say, these were popular newspapers.
几乎不用说，这些是受欢迎的报纸。
But perhaps his crowning achievement was to come with the advent of the May Thirtieth Movement, the labour/anti-imperialist insurrection that took place in Shanghai in 1925, affording Cheng his chance at journalistic activism which would bring about a seismic societal shift.
但也许他的巅峰成就是随着五三十运动的出现，即1925年在上海发生的劳工/反帝国主义起义，为程提供了新闻活动的机会，这将带来地震性的社会转变。
With the first rattling of Japanese sabres and the people’s hero, Sun Yat-sen, recently dead, public sentiment was at an all-time low. A raft of new legislation proposed by the unpopular Shanghai Municipal Council further angered the city’s populace, including for Cheng in particular, a new censorship law.
随着日本军刀的首次响声和人民英雄孙中山最近去世，公众情绪处于历史最低点。 不受歡迎的上海市议会提出的一系列新立法进一步激怒了该市的民眾，包括新的审查法。
Cheng had earlier in the year launched “The World Daily” (世界日报). Mobilising his writers, the outlet successively published many a report by way of exposé and solicited donations that could aid the strikers in Shanghai.
今年早些时候，Cheng推出了《世界日报》。 该媒体动员了他的作家，通过揭露的方式陆续发表了许多报告，并募集捐款来帮助上海的罢工者。
The publication was such a success that latterly the “World Daily Supplement” (世界日报副刊) was added. Many a scholar was enlisted to pen contributions, including that leading figure of contemporary Chinese literature and best-known modern writer, Lu Xun (鲁迅). Among Xu’s contributions to the supplement were his essays, “The Impromptu Diary” (马上日记), parts 1 and 2.
该出版物非常成功，以至于最近增加了“世界日报副刊”。 许多学者被征聘撰稿，包括当代中国文学的领軍人物和最著名的现代作家鲁迅。 徐对补编的贡献包括他的散文《马上日记》第1部分和第2部分。
Following a brief respite in Hong Kong, Cheng settled in Taiwan in 1952. There, he co-founded the World Journalism Vocational School in 1956, now known as Shih Hsin University, having also instigated journalism colleges in both Beijing and Guilin back on the mainland.
在香港短暂休息后，程于1952年定居在台湾。 在那里，他于1956年共同创立了世界新闻职业学校，现在被称为石信大学，还在大陆的北京和桂林创办了新闻学院。
All in all, Cheng had been involved with journalism for 77 years, and had participated in the founding of nigh on 20 publications.
总而言之，Cheng从事新闻工作已有77年，并参与了20份出版物的nigh的创立。
Cheng passed away of illness on 1 April, 1991.
程于1991年4月1日因病去世。
