War Research Report Of The Young Companion

In February 1926, Wu Liande founded the first huge and comprehensive newspaper-- The Young Companion.Together with the added publication, The Young Companion published 174 issues and had been prevailed for 20 years till the time when it stopped printing in October, 1945. As one of the most influential newspaper, The Young Companion not only had enormous readers in China, but also be well known in the world. The circulation of every issue could reach to thousands, and the highest one reached more then 4 thousand pieces. As the most typical and comprehensive newspaper during the period of the Republic of China, The Young Companion had witnessed the upheavals of China and even the ups and downs of the world from 20 s to the middle of 40 s in the 20 th century.In the beginning, The Young Companion recorded the city life, drew the blueprint of the city, promoted the modern and civilized life style and located itself as fashion visual publication. From the Mukden Incident engineered by Japanese military personnel in 1931, to the Battle of Songhu and the July 7th Incident, the nation crisis deepened continuously and the books and newspapers publication the concept of fighting with Japanese invaders and saving China appeared. In this condition, the intellectuals regarded publishing as the their duty in order to save China. After the Anti-Japanese war broke out completely, The Young Companion changed its style by taking “all for the Anti-Japanese war” as its principle and focusing on the current news especially the report on the war. From 1937 to October 1947, The Young Companion concerned about the Anti-Japanese war, saving for it and publicated it, which made itself the platform of propagating the concept of fighting with the Japanese intruder and saving China.As a visual publication, The Young Companion showed its particular advantage in the anti-Japanese report. The Young Companion paid attention to currents affairs and the war and covered front-line battles, the home front backup, the analysis of the domestic and inter nation situation and the entertainment news, etc. Among the numerous reports regarding anti-Japanese war. The Young Companion reported the battlefront and analyzed the world situation to propaganda the heroic behaviors of Chinese army and establish a firm faith during the war by using the narrative methods of images. The Young Companion displayed the cruelty of Japanese invaders and revealed the injustice of Fascist war so as to trigger Chinese people’s patriotism. The using the narrative methods of images. The Young Companion displayed the cruelty of Japanese invaders and revealed the injustice of Fascist war so as to trigger Chinese people’s patriotism. The Young Companion depicted the backup from the home front to encourage the common people to support the war and presented the economic recovery and construction to rekindle people’s hope for life. In addition, it appealed to national fitness and encouraged the female to serve in the army. In the aspects of entertainment and artistic works, there were many reports concerning the war and the awareness of propagating anti-Japanese war. During the war, The Young Companion de recorded all the aspects of Chinese society and the world situation through the display of images. At the same time, the function words should not be neglected. The rhetorical headlines and the supplementary characters made up the deficiency of the images.To coordinate with the anti-Japanese war, The Young Companion not only adjusted its content, but its form. It emphasized the theme of anti-Japanese war through the various expression forms created by page arrangement and art design, which makes the content more vivid and lively.Nowdays, visual images have taken up all the aspects of our life. With the innovation of journalism and communication technology and the application of new media, it has been accepted that news reports has stepped into the era of image display. The traditional new production is dominated by de character depiction, through which the news is transmitted in the form of messages, remarks, in-dept reports, etc. To adapt to the need of the market and the reader, the news report has changed its traditional report mode featured by character depiction and stepped into the age of dominated by character depiction, through which the news is transmitted in the form of messages, remarks, in-dept reports, etc. To adapt to the need of the market and readers, the news report has changed its traditional report mode featured by character depiction and stepped into the age of imsges. As the pioneer of visual magazine, The Young Companion provides consideration for the visual display of modern media from the perspective of editorial concepts such as the cover design, image selection and page arrangement. Meanwhile, the responsibility shouldered by the literati in the Republic of China in face of national calamity sets an example for the journalists in our time and will be remembered by history.