Journal Of The Occupied Areas To Study

Established in May 1938, the magazine Zazhi is an important publication in Shanghai .After reopened for the second time in August 1942, Zazhi, which was published monthly compared with twice a month before, kept its name yet had changed fundamentally. From then on, Zazhi had become the propaganda tool for the Japanese imperialists and Wang Jingwei's Puppet Regime.Some researchers believe that Zazhi was run by some underground members of Chinese Communist Party when Shanghai was in the enemies'hands. Thus, the publication was not controlled by the Japanese or the Puppet Regime, serving to spread news in our favor. Such opinion is what this paper disagrees with. This paper holds that Zazhi had been serving the interests of the Japanese and the puppet regime after it reopened in August 1942.Among the published articles in Zazhi, some were undisguised propaganda tools serving the enemies politically and culturally; some adopted subtle ways of writing in achieving this goal; some were written by"dirty Writers"who had the same purpose. As for the articles written by literature writers, they were nothing but a cover-up for the dimness and lifelessness in arts under the brutal cultural control of Japanese Imperialists and the Puppet Government at that time.This paper conducts an overall and thorough research of Zazhi from different perspectives, combining quantitative and qualitative analysis methods. The facts tell us that Zazhi, though advocating"Magazine for magazine's sake"and positioning itself as a pursuer of"pure art", could not live up to its aims. Despite the fact that Zazhi was one of the best literary journals in Shanghai when it was occupied by the Japanese armies, it had become a political and cultural propaganda tool for the enemies, which could be justified from the published articles with the pro-Japan and–Puppet Government political orientation. With more than 10,000 volumes at each issue, Zazhi became spiritual opium, exerting a negative effect on the Chinese, especially those in the Japanese-occupied Shanghai.