Content note: Anti-Manchu ethnic-hostility editorial using slogans such as 'kill the Manchus' and 'nine-generation hatred'. This object is shown as it was published. Why
蘇報 Subao, 18 June 1903, front-page editorial 賀滿洲人 (Congratulations to the Manchus)
Opening page of the Shanghai daily Subao, 18 June 1903 (a bound two-page spread), with the editorial 賀滿洲人 (Congratulations to the Manchus) on the right-hand page, in a mock-congratulatory tone. Bold inline phrases such as 革命排滿 and 九世深仇, and the label 民賊 for the Manchu court, mark the tell: a group label does the arguing before any case is made.
- Date
- June 18, 1903
- Period
- Pre-1914
- Made by
- Subao (蘇報), Shanghai daily, in its radical phase before the June 1903 Subao case
- Region
- East Asia
- Country
- Qing China
- Medium
- Newspaper pages
- Issuer type
- Media
- Regime
- Qing Dynasty
- Leader
- Guangxu Emperor
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Event
- Subao Case
- Techniques
- Name-calling
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Internet Archive, Subao collection (East Asia periodicals), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (US; published before 1931); IA item page has no rights line
Subao, Shanghai, 18 June 1903; scan via Internet Archive (item subao-1903.06.18).
Text on the object
[Page heading as printed:] 第一頁 論說 賀滿洲人 [Excerpts of the editorial, bold phrases and lead lines as printed:] 殺滿殺滿之聲已騰衆口 [...] 舉世無三桂全國皆賓王 [...] 九世深仇 [...] 漢人之所抵抗者在朝之滿洲民賊而并不計樹降旗獻國璽之順民也 [...] 革命排滿 [...] 悲哉滿人 [...] 痛哉滿人 [...] 賀滿人吾誠不得不賀滿人 [Rest of the editorial and the other columns of the page (including 特別要聞 and 雲南警信) not transcribed.]
[Page heading:] First page Editorial Congratulations to the Manchus [Excerpts:] The cry 'kill the Manchus, kill the Manchus' already rises from many mouths [...] The whole world has no [Wu] Sangui; the whole country are all [Luo] Binwangs [bold phrase; allusive, translated literally] [...] Nine-generation deep hatred [...] What the Han resist is the Manchu in court, the 'betrayer of the people' [民賊], and not the submissive subjects who raise the surrender flag and offer the seal [...] Revolution, expel the Manchus [...] Alas, the Manchus [...] Woeful, the Manchus [...] Congratulate the Manchus: I truly cannot but congratulate the Manchus.
Read from a 2600 px render. Only legible bold lines and lead lines are given; connecting sentences are omitted and marked [...]. The line 舉世無三桂全國皆賓王 is read with less confidence and its allusion (Wu Sangui, who opened the pass to the Qing; Luo Binwang, author of an anti-Wu Zetian proclamation) is FRAME's gloss, not printed. Translation is a literal machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader.
