On The "Left Leaf Event"

The Zuoye Incident occurred exactly in1957，which isa simple fact that an official dispute with a photographer.The Zuoye Incident gradually evolved into a national eventsdue to the volatile political situation and its truth becameunknowable. For different purposes, some individuals andgroups were involved in the Zuoye Incident. Theyunconsciously played a different role in that thedevelopment of the Zuoye Incident became complicated andchangeable.Subsequently, the event because of the country from allwalks of life to let off a tide of rectification furthersuggesting that criticism has been increased to news theory,system, journalists working methods such as fundamentalissues. Finally, the incident with the beginning of thenational campaign against the right end is qualitative asthe press "to start against the people, opposed to socialism,the leadership of the communist party’s political attacka fuse". In this process, some individuals and groups, dueto different reasons, are involved in among them,unconsciously played different roles and play a differentrole, will make the development of this historical eventof the ups and downs.Studying the Zuoye Incident can help us clarify thecontext of events, understand its causes and effects, aswell as the impact. Especially standing under the today’s political environment and the thought state, we can inspectthe journalism and journalists living conditions when thenew China was in a preliminary and learn from history tore-examine the journalism and journalists livingconditions nowadays. Furthermore it has great theoreticaland practical significance for promoting politicaloversight, improving political democracy and pushingcultural development.The introduction explains the selected topic and itssignificance, the present condition of the research, basicthoughts, the structure of paper and the basic historicalmaterials.The main body of the article is divided into threechapters. The first chapter analyses the Zuoye Incidentbackground and introduces the overview of journalism andthe conditions of newspaper criticism and the incident siteat that situation. The second chapter introduces the wholeprocess, which the Zuoye Incident evolved into a nationalevent from occurring, focusing on analysis of the reasonswhy the China youth daily can trigger the event. The thirdchapter introduces the whole process, which the ZuoyeIncident had been characterized as anti-party event afterthe CCP started the anti-Rightist struggle, emphasizing onhow the All-China Journalists’ Association investigate theZuoye Incident and the endings and destiny of journalismand journalists after the Zuoye Incident.The Summary introduces three modes of the relationship between news and political power, analyses the process ofdevelopment the Zuoye Incident under Rigid pattern.Thispart pay more attention on analysis journalism andjournalists how to swing under the political power.