A Study On The Image Dissemination Of News Of China United Relief

The period from 1942 to 1946 was a time when the world anti-fascist alliance and the fascist axis countries fought hard and finally won.Although more than 70 years have passed,the world is still tracing back various aspects of this war.Among them,the US policy on China in wartime has always been an important issue that cannot be evaded in the history of China's war of resistance against Japan and the history of Sino-US relations.At present,the academic circles mainly focus on the investigation and evaluation of the US government's assistance activities to China,including economic assistance,military assistance,and cultural assistance.However,there are few related studies on American private aid to China.But before the outbreak of the Pacific War,American non-governmental aid activities began to spring up like mushrooms.In February 1941,in order to integrate the power of various civil organizations in the United States and provide relief and rehabilitation funds to the Chinese people in the war of resistance,the founder of Time Weekly,Henry Luce,led the merger of the eight non-governmental organizations in China to form a national aid United China Relief.As the official newspaper of the United China Relief,the News of United China Relief was launched in September 1942 at 1790 Broadway Street in New York City,Which is distributed nationwide in the form of a monthly magazine.Since its inception on September 5,1942 and ceased publication in June 1946,the newspaper has issued a total of 5 volumes and 45 issues,each with a fixed 8 pages,plus 4 pages of the Special Numbers published in August 1945,364 pages.This article takes the 544 image reports in the News of United China Relief as the research object,intends to use text analysis,supported by the ACTS communication theory of news images,and analyzes that the newspaper shows the bloody struggle of the Chinese military and civilians.The visual language features embodied in Chinese donations and donations go back to a cherished history of the Chinese and American people fighting against fascist Japan.The idea of this article is as follows:First,sort out the process of starting the publication of the News of United China Relief.This part mainly includes an introduction to the establishment process of the United China Relief and the background of the publication of the News of United China Relief.Secondly,it shows the main themes reported in the newspaper.This chapter includes two parts to show the Chinese people in the war of resistance and to show the United China Relief.Then,it analyzes the composition design of the image report.This part mainly includes: the general design of the collection image,the overall composition and the combination of individual elements,and the theme expression of the series of group pictures.Finally,it analyzes the symbolic discourse representation of the image report of the newspaper.This part mainly explores how the newspaper constructs a symbol based on Chinese geographical space and landscape,materialized totem and festival,calligraphy and painting art and philosophical symbols from the visual symbol system of Chinese culture from the other perspective.The study found that after the establishment of the United China Relief,due to the influence of anti-Chinese stereotypes and neutralism in the United States,the newspaper knew the arduous task of its propaganda after its publication,so the use of images to convey ideas became the practice essential.After analyzing the newspaper's image transmission characteristics from the two levels of composition design and symbolic representation,the author believes that the newspaper focuses on the collection of images,the overall composition and individual elements,and the series of group photos to improve the visual communication of image news force.At the same time,the newspaper used a series of image reports with extremely Chinese symbolic elements to connect a psychological process of the integration and identification of China's region,folk customs,art and culture,and completed the positioning of China's geographic space.Then focus on China's Folk Festival and finally mobilize China's aid to the sublimation of China's art culture.