| During World War II,Chongqing,as a wartime capital,gathered dignitaries and international journalists from all over the world.“Xinhua Daily” had become one of the channels for the CPC to spread to the outside world.This paper adopts a corpus-based Discourse-Historical Approach method,to analyze the editorials published in the Xinhua Daily from 1938 to 1945.These editorials are relevant to Southeast Asia.Combined with the idea of the Communist Party of China to establish a united front,this paper explores the following content: The editorials related to Nanyang in “Xinhua Daily” revolve around multiple subjects,forming the theme of war.In editorials,they acted aggressively to promote the establishment of an anti-fascist front in the Southeast Asian region.“Xinhua Daily” included the Southeast Asian countries and related capitalist countries into the “in-group” and actively promoted the unity and cooperation of the “in-group”.At the same time,“Xinhua Daily” also expressed its firm resistance to the “out-group” aggression forces represented by the Japanese fascists.Combining with the social and historical context,it is found that the editorial of“Xinhua Daily” actively constructs “one’s own people”,which refers to the oppressed nation,and forms the “core” of the united front.It repeatedly stressed the necessity of establishing a world united front against Japan in the Far East and criticized the appeasement policies of capitalist countries.It also requires capitalist countries such as Britain,the United States and France to correctly recognize the important role that the people,especially the Chinese and Nanyang people,can play in the war of resistance.For the overseas Chinese who have assumed the role of “bridge” linking China and Nanyang,“Xinhua Daily” emphasized the mutual assistance relationship between them and the motherland.Especially in the face of inherent contradictions between other countries and people within the world anti-fascist united front,Xinhua Daily can use the ideas of powerful countries as a tool to call for equal treatment of weak people.This enhances the persuasive power of Xinhua Daily’s discourse.With the changes in the war situation,the focus of the “Xinhua Daily” has gone through different stages of “extensive mobilization”,“sincere cooperation” and“encouraging liberation”.This paper argues that in the discourse of “Xinhua Daily”,the“in-group” is flexibly constructed,and the concept of “the united front cannot be rigid”of the Chinese Communist Party is implemented.This is not only reflected in their ability to unite forces to the greatest extent possible.It is more reflected in that they changed the discourse direction of external propaganda and flexibly chose the key objects of the dialogue according to the progress of the war.Faced with different situations,it can emphasize the legitimacy of “our” behavior through multiple arguments,such as“useful/beneficial”,“useless/unhelpful”,“dangerous or threat”,“responsibility”,“law and rights”.The United Front discourse of the Xinhua Daily also pays attention to closely linking the feelings of the oppressed nations.On the one hand,they have constructed the emotional community of the oppressed nations in Asia through words such as “trust”,“inspiration”,and “struggle”.On the other hand,they hoped to help the overseas Chinese participate in the local war of resistance by taking advantage of the political and economic ties between the overseas Chinese and the local people.In order to achieve the ultimate goal,which is to promote the liberation of the oppressed nations in Asia,the Xinhua Daily highlighted a viewpoint that the liberation of the disadvantaged nations must rely on their own strength.Using the experience of the Chinese people as an example,it proves that only by persevering in resistance can Improve the country’s international standing. |
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