Research On Subject Dimension Of Edgar Snow's Journalistic Activities To China

Journalistic activity is a kind of social cognition,which not only involved in information sharing,but also in spiritual communication and cultural exchanges,throughout social practice and life.Studying journalism activities,in fact,just research people's activities as the subject.Significantly affected by politics,economics,culture,military and other factors,the subject of journalist activity can play what role,show what basic features,and connect what relations between various subjects in different social field and background,possess important meanings in reflecting a fundamental sight and essential discipline of journalist activity in a historical period.Throughout all subjects in journalist activity,the propagating subject plays a vital role in commanding overall situation,and that's the reason why Edgar Snow was chose as the research core in this article.In combination with the relevant historical materials and works,the analysis of specific relationships will be presented between Edgar Snow and the subjects,which includes the information source subject,the receiving subject,she controlling subject,and the higher propagating subject.The journalist activities of Edgar Snow in China lasted for a long time,and lasted in a complicated and ever-changing situation.It was deeply influenced by political and military forces of Kuomintang government,CPC border region and new China period,McCarthyism period of America,the Shanghai concession time and the period of Japanese invasion to China.In each historical stage and background,the journalistic activities subjects,which includes information source,media audiences and regulatory role,had been established various relations with Edgar Snow and his journalistic activities.This article aims to discuss the constitution of journalistic activities subjects and the inter-subjective relationships,via the research on Edgar Snow.The innovation of this article is the creative use of subject dimension in research the journalistic activities to China of Edgar Snow.This research can not only showcase the particular times background on a macro level,but also reflect different subjects' specific role and function through the micro perspective,and then can reveal essential features of Edgar Snow's journalistic activities to China,as well as the intrinsic and essential connections between different subjects.In this article we can see that cultural,economic,military and political have influenced Edgar Snow'sjournalistic activities to China in different social fields and political contexts.The relationships between different objects reveal Snow's unique and lofty journalistic value orientation and journalism pursuit.Which also presents a cross-era and trans-regional journalism activities landscape and media ecosystem.