Study On Official Image Of Picture Daily In Late Qing Dynasty

Picture Daily is the first pictorial newspaper with the nature of a daily newspaper in the publishing history of Chinese pictorial newspapers,presenting the social style and features of the late Qing Dynasty in a way that is illustrated and illustrated.At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China,condemnation novels boldly exposed and coldly observed the officialdom of the late Qing Dynasty,and the various forms of officialdom gradually became one of the literary themes that readers enjoyed and the authors emphasized.Picture Daily inherits this theme and tradition,presenting officials with bold and revealing features.With the combined force of meticulous depiction by painters and multiple genres,the image of officials is more authentic and closer to historical truth.The first chapter discusses the types and image characteristics of late Qing officials in Picture Daily.While sorting out the image of officials in the newspaper into traditional officials,new officials,and foreign officials,it summarizes the image characteristics of officials appearing in different occasions,and integrates them into the image of officials in professional situations and the image of officials in life.Through the representation of the types and characteristics of officials,we can gain insight into the ecology of corruption in the officialdom and the difficult process of official system reform in the late Qing Dynasty.The meticulous reporting of officials highlights the efforts of pictorial newspapers to cater to the market.The second chapter discusses the multiple genres and artistic characteristics of the image of officials in the late Qing Dynasty presented in Picture Daily.The newspaper presents the images of officials in the late Qing Dynasty through various genres such as colloquial paintings,new novels,and comics,in order to supplement and verify the shortcomings of the images of officials in official newspapers.By exposing satire,the newspaper presents the true images of officials in the late Qing Dynasty to the public,and explores the modernity behind this approach.Under the basic pattern of graphic narration,the "artistic reality" and "life reality" of official images in pictorial newspapers are reflected.The newspaper breaks through the traditional graphic narrative pattern,but still retains the artistic representation of traditional Chinese painting in terms of narrative characteristics,reflecting the artistic characteristics of the transition period,which blends the old and the new.At the same time,this feature transcends the formal level and manifests itself as an "artistic" and "real life" in terms of content.The third chapter mainly discusses the "revolutionary" and "enlightening" characteristics contained in the phenomenon of satirizing and exposing officials in Picture Daily."Revolutionary" manifests itself in exposing the incompleteness of the official system reform in the late Qing Dynasty,the collapse of the traditional value system of literati,the transformation of professional positions,and the iteration of press freedom and the publishing market."Enlightenment" is reflected in the pictorial writing team portraying the official group as a representative force of feudal backwardness,using satirical exposure to this group to cultivate the public’s "viewing consciousness",and conveying the enlightenment ideology of anti feudal ignorance,anti oppression,and arming the body and spirit.The conclusion part discusses the differences between the publication,style,and purport of Picture Daily from the perspective of "official image",explores the possible reasons behind the differences,and reveals the complexity of the social situation in the late Qing Dynasty and the arduous task of enlightenment.