The main question of this essay is how information media constructed “public society” during the Ming and Qing dynasties. By examining both Di bao (邸報) and popular media, this essay strives to reveals the ways in which media integrated the individual with society as well as analyzing the influence of media on society. This essay further discusses how people developed emotional connections with the unknown aspects of notions such as the state and society through media. These mediated connections were key in constructing a “public society.” This essay corroborates the claim that the nascent developments of media during the Ming and Qing affected interpersonal interactions between an individual and society, as well as between individuals. By virtue of media such as Di bao, plays, and novels, interpersonal interactions surpassed spatial limitations. Media could rapidly spread particular or individual news to the general public, allowing those who were absent from the scene feel as if they were “experiencing” it, and concomitantly allowing them the opportunity to “participate in” social affairs beyond their knowledge. In this way, mass media enhanced and expanded the individual living sphere, forming a “public sphere.” Under the influence of new media, each individual could join this “public sphere” and connect with an imagined “general public.” That is to say, mass media created an “imagined society.” In addition to a personal and therefore limited “real world,” there existed a vast “fictitious world”for everyone to take part in and experience. Accordingly, interactions between people developed into interactions between each individual and the abstract society, which cut across space limitations, and ultimately established an immense “public society.”