The Journey Of The Heart Of Newspaperman Wangyunsheng In The Early Period Of Liberation

After the founding of the PRC, though the name “TaKung Bao”remained but itwas divided into the new one and the old one. The part before the founding of the PRC iscalled the “Old TaKung Bao” which is the representative of the old paper. The oldpaper should be denied completely. The managing editor Wang Yunsheng can be the oldpaper’s news professional in many occasions but he tried his best to get rid of thisidentification. He tried hard to change himself and at first he imagined to keep hisindignity when admitted the new regime. However, at last he just managed to survive letalone something else.This article starts from the news history perspective and sets the background on theintellects’ transformation and the privately-operated paper’s fate before and after thefounding of the PRC. It starts from1948and ends on1958and discusses severalimportant events in this period. It mainly discusses that Wang Yunsheng followed thehistory trend and supported the PRC. Meanwhile, in order to prove his loyalty to the PRC,he continuingly criticized himself and pursued self-improvement. And he firmly acceptedthe proletarian news ideas.This research is divided into three parts. At first, it discusses the hard choice thatWang Yunsheng had made facing the changes of China’s political environment. He wantedto support the new regime. Then it analyses Wang Yunsheng’s self-revolution andself-consciousness from1949to1957. During this process, Wang Yunsheng’s independentpersonality and independent idea and freedom idea have disappeared.in order to gain theadmittance of social status. At last, Wang Yunsheng began to accept the new news idea. Hedidn’t pay attention to it at first and he didn’t follow the ideas of Mao Zedong inside hisheart. But he has to follow the new idea to deny himself and the so-called “Old Ta KungBao” in order to survive. This research considers that Wang Yunsheng’s self-crusade process before and afterthe founding of the PRC is actually a thinking-transformation of those free intellects invarious areas which is made by the New Party in order to realize the control in theideology area.The new regime of the CPC in this campaign follows the previous criticism andself-denial. Before and after the founding of the PRC, without exception, Wang Yunshengused this approach-negated the old ideology, old ego, old Ta Kung Pao, and eventuallyled to his occupational identity changes and new identity recognition, as well as WangYunsheng in the political life of a passive emotional and ideological vested. To be sure, inthe prevailing political ecological environment, Wang Yunsheng’s mentality is not only hisown identity and psychological transformation process; it also represents a journeyexperienced by this particular social group of liberal intellectuals.