This paper attempts to discuss the influence of an ideological tradition long neglected in the study of journalism history: Chinese anarchism. A careful examination of Cheng She-wo's social network and personal interaction normally led us to suspect the New Era anarchists may have had a greater influence on him than the liberalism of the May Fourth period. It has been noticed that most anarchists’ journalism practices concentrated in the forms of monographs, magazines, journals, and pamphlets; however, Cheng She-wo chose newspapers as the vehicle to reach the public. Cheng's belief in the importance of public interests as the foundation for newspapers hastened his adoption of 'massification' as his newspapers’ direction, and his demand for massification was to engage the masses in newspapers, not to create a product solely for the consumption of the bourgeoisie. It is claimed in this paper that Chinese anarchism was not a small part to form Cheng's journalism views and practices, especially his ideas and practices of newspapers' 'massification'.