An Research On Paper Shortage In Newspaper Industry In KMT-Ruled Area During The War Of Liberation

The content of newspapers is carried by paper,and the price of paper determines the operation and distribution of newspapers.With the outbreak of the war of liberation,the devaluation of the currency in the KMT-ruled area was severe,and the price of goods soared.As a result,the KMT government restricted the import of paper and issued paper saving measures to reduce foreign exchange losses.However,the policy of distributing paper based on relationship with government has caused panic in the newspaper industry.Under the crisis of paper shortage,the black market for paper is rampant,and private newspaper offices are struggling to survive.The development and expansion of the newspaper office suffered unprecedented bad luck.This paper takes the newspaper paper shortage in this period as the research object,and reorganizes the living environment of the newspaper industry through the research on the paper shortage problem of the newspaper industry,reveals the reasons for the paper shortage of the newspaper industry,and explores the response of the newspaper industry under the survival crisis.What kind of profound impact and changes has the paper shortage plighted on the newspaper industry in the Kuomintang-controlled areas.This article has five parts in total.The first part is the introduction,which mainly discusses the existing research,related concepts,research methods used in this paper,and the significance of the topic selection.The second part begins after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War,and reproduces the origin and characteristics of the shortage of paper in the newspaper industry.The third part focuses on discussing the many efforts made by colleagues in the newspaper industry for the survival under the crisis of paper shortage.The fourth part explores the reasons for the shortage of paper in the newspaper industry and the profound changes that have taken place in the newspaper industry under the harassment of paper shortage.The conclusion part starts from the social background at that time,and systematically evaluates this issue from a historical perspective,focusing on expounding that under special circumstances,the sinister practice of the KMT authorities to curb the news media through paper not only failed to achieve the expected purpose of controlling public opinion,but also on the contrary,it provided a hotbed for the corruption and fraud of the KMT party newspapers and the black market of papers.Under the pressure of survival,self-preservation is always the first choice for private newspapers or KMT party newspapers.The shortage of paper has caused newspaper reporters to defect one after another,the national cultural undertaking has regressed,and the KMT government has completely lost its support.