A Research Of The Globe Magazine's Japanese Image

In these newspapers founded by early western missionaries, The Globe Magazine which is issued under Young John Allen's general editorship, had the longest running, distribution, the biggest influence, and the most typical characteristic. In addition to vigorously promote "western", published politics, advocating political reform, The Globe Magazine also used a large number of reports reported on current events around the world. In order to attract China follow the example of Japan, and learn western, reduce the resistance of the missionary work in China, promote the progress of China's political reform, The Globe Magazine's reports continued to Japan had large number, rich in content, and covering all aspects of the Japanese. In addition to the Japanese news, The Globe Magazine also related with plenty of space to publish the commentaries on current events about the Sino-Japanese War, the Russo-Japanese War, Japan and the Ryukyu, Japan and North Korea and so on. All of these constitute the main content of its foreign reports.These build up many layers of "image" of Japan.For countries, the most basic function of mass media is watching environment, namely, using the fastest speed directly reflects the current events and the development trend abroad. Modern press is the weapon of mass media, which was helpful for Chinese people to understand the changes of international and capture information. Since the Opium War to the Sino-Japanese War in modern social transition, Japan came through the Meiji restoration, which with an emphasis on social development based on industry, Civilization and Enlightenment, a prosperous country with a powerful army. Japan had the upper hand in the modern competition between China and Japan. The image of Japan which constructed by The Globe Magazine is just a general, in fact it was constituted by Japan's national image, political image, economic image, cultural image, and the image of different elements. These true, artificial information put a layer of gauze to Japan.News media seems to be the pursuit of objective and fair, but they often come from a specific perspective, select a specific material to report the incident.The Globe Magazine is founded by the western missionaries, so the appearance and formation, change and continuation, especially for selection and filtering of information of the image of Japan which is constructed by The Globe Magazine, are all affected by it in the western context and constraints. The image of Japan which is constructed by The Globe Magazine has its particularity, but it is closely related to Japan's image in the west. The formation of it under the western discourse, and through a variety of power game, a variety of sources, a variety of reporting practices.Understanding of Japan on the surface by the individual choices and decisions, but it is restricted by hidden historical, political, social and other factors, and it is the result of political, the media, the individual influence each other. From the perspective of the papers' coverage of Japan, we can inspect the establishment and formation of Japan's image. That is also to explore the hidden era, to explore the collision blending and mutation between different culture.In general, the image of Japan which is constructed by The Globe Magazine is blend of civilization and savage, also is western culture identity in the concept of world order itself and constructing the culture of "the other". There is exaggeration and distortion, but also has the informatation that met Japanese practical.