The Analysis Of The Battle Line Of Southeastern China, The Anthology Of Cao Juren’s War Reports

Cao Juren is a well-known intellectual as well as a college professor in the time of the Republic of China. The national war of resistance against Japan began in 1937. At that time, Cao Juren went to the battle front and became a news reporter. Working for the central news agency of the in-power Kuomintang, Cao Juren had written a large quantity of battlefield news reports and stories.The Battle Line of Southeastern China, which includes over seventy reports from 1938 to 1940, is the only anthology of Cao’s war reports, and is the essence of Cao’s journalist achievements during the war.This paper is a special research of the The Battle Line of Southeastern China. The paper takes the anthology as the subject, analyzes its features from three aspects of content, attitude and expression, by the means of text analysis.The first chapter is the introduction part, briefly describes the background information of Cao Juren and the The Battle Line of Southeastern China, reviews the relative researches in domestic academia, and explains the questions that the research tries to solve and the method the research uses.The second chapter is the analysis from the aspect of content. Reports and comments of battlefields is the main content of The Battle Line of Southeastern China. Besides, there are also reports about the society and economy in the anthology. The reports in the anthology generally take a macro view when reporting, namely put most attention to the general situation rather than specific matters. The reports focus on the general situation of battles, and give military comments which are quite strategic and theoretical. And the reports observe the society from an overlooking view, paying attention to the social collective mentality and thinking the economy as another battle-line.The third chapter is the analysis from the aspect of attitude. In the background when the whole country got united to defend enemy, The Battle Line of Southeastern China mostly reported the positive sides of our military and society, while reported almost nothing negative of our side. At the same time, the reports use a positive and optimistic tone to express. All these show the propaganda function of the news reports in the war time. About the political attitude, The Battle Line of Southeastern China shows totally support for Kuomintang government One reason is that Cao got restraint from the central news agency of Kuomintang. The other reason is that Cao bears a character of taking stock and following the main stream, which made him show support for the in-power Kuomintang government.The fourth chapter is the analysis from the aspect of expression. The Battle Line of Southeastern China has various genres instead of a fixed one. The anthology has got a rational feature, and shows strong objectivity and logicality when presenting facts and giving comments. Besides, the anthology also has got a feature of literariness. It got a nice and delicate style when depicting a scenery view or expressing emotions and feelings.