A Research On Lanzhou’s Newspapers And Periodicals During The Period Of The Total Anti-Japanese War

After the outbreak of the total Anti-Japanese War,with the intensification of Japan’s aggression against China,Chinese national crisis had deepened,the voice of the Chinese domestic medias to resist Japan and save the nation had become urgent increasingly.As a vital city of northwestern China,Lanzhou was also on the rise in the trend of establishing newspapers and periodicals,so as to serve the war of resistance.The local party and government offices,social salvation groups,national patriots and part of colleges and universities all had employed themselves actively in running publications in order to develop rear mobilization.Thanks to the progress of local paper industry,printing,culture and education in Gansu province in the Anti-Japanese War,in addition,the wartime journalists to move Lanzhou and their hard work,and before the war press development foundation in Lanzhou,during the period of the total Anti-Japanese War,Lanzhou’s newspapers and periodicals had developed continually under the background of the Kuomintang-Communist cooperation with the Anti-Japanese national united aggression,reaching an unprecedented situation.Among these newspapers and periodicals,the official newspapers of the Kuomintang had taken the leading position with the longest publishing time,and the newspapers and periodicals run by civil society forces also had flourished in the early period of the total war of resistance.In terms of content details,Lanzhou’s newspapers and periodicals had made a lot of reports and mobilizations on the Anti-Japanese War,also had covered the development and construction of northwestern China,as well as the prices and constructions in Lanzhou.Throughout overall developmental trajectory of Lanzhou’s newspapers and periodicals during the Anti-Japanese War,it hadn’t broken away from the environment of the total Anti-Japanese War and the situation in northwestern China.On the one hand,it had possessed obvious characteristics of wartime,improvement,localization and stage.On the other hand,it had been hard to avoid unfair reports due to influences by the situation,but overall,Lanzhou’s newspapers and periodicals had played an important role which can’t be negligible,it not only had enhanced the wartime mobilizations in Gansu province,had made an important contribution to victory of the Anti-Japanese War,but also had driven the the progress of journalism and social culture in Gansu province,to some degree,it had had a positive influence on the construction and development of Gansu province and northwestern China.