A Study Of The Weekly Guide

The Weekly Guide, a magazine launched in September 1922 and stopped in July 1927, although only issued five years, is the revolutionary propaganda powerful national newspapers in the early 20th century. As a news media, The Weekly Guide is a symbol of the turbulent time of the current situation, having some research values and significances. This thesis attempts to study the foundation, functions, characteristics and status of this magazine in the background of the National Revolutionary.The Weekly Guide is a political newspaper of the Communist Party of China and an important theoretical position in the national revolution. Its editorial group is composed of the early leaders of the Communist Party of China, Chen Duxiu, Cai Hesen, Li Dazhao and others. This nature determines its publicity center. In the first issue of this magazine, it points out: "Revolutionary Party should greatly make a propaganda of the public, greatly be involved with the public, continue to knock down speculation warlords and international imperialism's oppression of the Democratic Revolution (National Revolutionary) "(Cai Hesen: "reunification loan with the KMT," the first issue of The Weekly Guide).In the first issue "this Declaration," it offers the more distinct the goal: "against international imperialism," "erase warlords" and found a China of "unity, peace, freedom, independence". This goal shows the CPC Central Committee's "anti-imperialism and anti-feudalism" revolutionary program, spreads the national revolution, summarizes the community's main source, in line with China's actual conditions and reflects the real public opinion. Before the "First National Conference" of KMT, The Weekly Guide concentrates on the propaganda of the anti-imperialist and anti-feudalism revolutionary program, actively helps Sun Zhongshan for the restructuring of the KMT, promotes the establishment of the united front of the revolutionary. After the foundation of the cooperation between the Kuomintang and CPC, The Weekly Guide undertake the mission of spreading the national revolutionary.On the one hand, it struggles with the rightist of KMT together with leftist of KMT, on the one hand, it launches worker-peasant movement, improves people's revolution awareness, promotes the Northern Expedition, forms the climax of the national revolution—the start of the Northern Expedition, This magazine also makes tracking reports of Northern Expedition, attacks the feudal warlords, enables the general public to know the situation of the revolution in time, inspires the revolutionary enthusiasm of the mass, and strongly supports the Northern Expedition.The Weekly Guide's propaganda of the "National Revolution" ideology is on behalf of the orientation of social development, thus it should hold an important position in modern Chinese history, the history of the media and the history of social development.