A Comparative Study Of Fan Changjiang And Snow's Interviews With China

Fan,Snow and Helen are three famous journalists of the 20 th century.Their travel newsletters and reportages,based on interviews,have a high quality.Well understanding their works about China could help scholors to know news-writing and social reality,even improve their professional spirit.This paper selects Fan,Snow and Helen's interviews about China as the research object.By inclucing and summarizing their works written in different periods the results show a characteristic of stage.Wokrs before1937 mainly reproted on the Long March of the Red Army and the revolutionary movement of the Chinese people.From 1937 to 1949,it mainly focused on the War of Resistance Against Japan.After 1949,the construction of New China be paid much attention.Although three people are writing about similar topics,the characteristics they display in the works are different,and these differences are related to their respective educational backgrounds,personal experiences and ways of thinking.The characteristic of their works are different from each other,even under a similar theme,which should be sscribed to the experiences of education,practice and the way fo thinking.Their works always regard as classic works by generation of which has the communication value on widly knowing about China at that time;the literary value on representing a high level of newsletter and reportage written;the reference value deeply knowing about China at that time.In addition,the things presented in their masterpieces proved valid examples in the field of communication which need to be learned,including,the profond literacture cultivation,the fearless interview style and the newtravel professional sprit.