Research On Xiongpeiyun’s Commentary On Current Affair

Xiong Peiyun is one of the outstanding representative figures in the field of news commentary. His commentary is in close accordance to the spirit of the30s. His works look into the complicated relationship between the nation and the society, striving to reestablish the ethical standard, calling for attention to citizens’rights and their values. His works are precious documents for the era①.This paper is guided by the theories of journalism, mass communication, culturology and logic, with530of Xiong’s works being its research subjects. Combining qualitative investigation, quantitative study and the interviewing method, this paper gives a comprehensive analysis to Xiong’s works.The paper is composed by6parts:The first part is an exordium. This part gives an introduction to the origin of the essay topic, its value, the research framework and the methods being used. The second part is a brief summary of Xiong’s news commentary career and his works. This part introduces the history of Xiong’s commentary career, summarizes his works and the3stages of his creative profession. The third part is a summary of the features of Xiong’s commentary works. This part explains the five major characteristics of his commentary works:his works are closely related to the hotspots with the public issues being the general focus; his works have an international perspective and a public agenda; his works attach equal importance to contrastive analysis and analogism; his works show gentle emotions and present the use of humorous languages; his works have multiple directivities, for some of his works are critic, some are explanatory, some are suggestive, some are complimentary, but the mainstream is critic and explanatory. The fourth part is a summary on the values indicated by his works. His works give priority to individual value, calling to consolidate social construction and social opening up. The fifth part discusses the main factors that contribute to the formations of the values and the features of his works. This part analyses from four aspects, namely social status, educational background,personal experience and social environment. The sixth part discusses the enlightenments brought by Xiong’s news commentary works. This part looks into the influence Xiong’s works have on other commentary writers as well as the public. In addition, this part also reveals the drawbacks in his work, his pays too much attention to value judgment and thus neglects fact judgment, some of his works lack scrupulous proof, and some works contains communication barriers for the readers.This paper holds that Xiong’s news commentary works have great significance to the citizens social construction due to their distinctive characteristics, wide-ranged perspectives and abundant contents.