A Historical Overview Of CPC's "Public Opinion Warfare" During The Revolutionary Phase (1921-1949)

The paper elementarily researches the public opinion warfare in the line of the revolution history of the Communist Party of China (CPC) from 1921 to 1949, from the party's birth to the building of the People's Republic of China. It has three main points in the theory.The first one is that the author concluded nine methods of the public opinion warfare, which converted morality, principle, channel etc. The paper portrays different characters of the nine methods by introducing concrete examples.The second is that the author reviewed the revolution history from 1921 to 1949 in the angle of the public opinion warfare, rather than political and military ones. It provide a new vision on anti-Japanese War and the country's civil war。The most important thing is that the paper researches the relation between the CPC and Kuomintang, the later fled to Taiwan in 1949. Different from those on military contradiction, the paper firstly analyzed the long-term public opinion warfare between the two parties.The research result will contribute to our public opinion warfare stratagem in the peace time. It also can give us some help for the information war in the future.