Image Politics: A Study Of Visual Propaganda During The War To Resist U.S. Aggression And Aid Kore

In July 1950,the new China is still in a hundred waste waiting to rise,the outbreak of the Korean War,the People’s Republic of China officially opened the history of the "resist the United States and aid North Korea" curtain,as for the support of the war,the domestic large-scale propaganda and mobilization then rolled out,under the comprehensive propaganda and mobilization,almost everything can become a means of propaganda,"Image" is full of figurative,infectious and intuitive characteristics,so that it stands out in the publicity work,is loved and welcomed by the public,and has obtained excellent publicity and education effect.The propaganda images in the period of resisting America and aiding Korea were widely seen in the mass media at that time,delivering intuitive and distinct political discourse,helping the popularization and promotion of the policies and instructions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.The mass media provided a media platform for the image to display and spread.Among them,as a kind of mass media with "image" as the narrative center,pictorial newspaper has the characteristics of image concentration and long-term serialization.The large number and rich types of images presented by pictorial newspaper are far from text-based,and the images are only interspersed by traditional newspapers and periodicals.During the period of resisting America and aiding Korea,New China Pictorial,represented by People’s Pictorial,Serial Pictorial and Northeast Pictorial,became an important tool for policy propaganda,public opinion guidance and public mobilization by the state.Pictorial depicts visual political narrative with images,starts the image publicity war of public opinion,and serves the wartime propaganda."People’s Illustrated" and "Comic Illustrated" were born with the founding of New China.Based on the central government,they radiate readers all over the country,keep up with the pulse of The Times,and reflect the major policies of the country.The former is a photographic pictorial newspaper,which focuses on external publicity to show the positive outlook of new China and has the attribute of "national newspaper".The latter is an art pictorial newspaper,which takes popular comic strips as the main content,which is humorous and suitable for all ages.Comic strips are often closely combined with political situations to publicize the thoughts and policies of the Communist Party of China.Northeast Pictorial,based in Northeast China,is the oldest and longest-lived pictorial in the liberated areas.It reflects the politics,economy and society of Northeast China with distinct local characteristics.The three pictorial newspapers in the period of resisting America and aiding Korea(1950-1953)have always maintained a stable serialization,providing complete and rich image data,pictorial maintains the pace consistent with the central policy,the published images almost cover the theme,types and characteristics of all the images in the period of Resisting America and aiding Korea,with the representative,symbolic and exemplary characteristics of image propaganda at that time.As the historical relics,the pictorial images record the historical context and reflect the theme of The Times and the historical style of resisting America and aiding the Dynasty.Besides historical retention,pictorial propaganda also presents the relationship between political movement,visual propaganda and public interaction.From the perspective of image history,this paper investigates and studies the image propaganda presented by People’s Illustrated,Serial Illustrated and Northeast Illustrated in the period of anti-American and aid to the Dynasty.It combines the "paradigm" of historical research with the theory and experience of other disciplines to broaden and deepen the investigation of different image types,and analyzes the historical background,thematic significance,artistic characteristics and propaganda effect of image generation.To deepen the discussion of "images and politics".After the outbreak of the Korean War,the Communist Party’s propaganda strategy experienced a process from cautious restraint to aggressive.In the large-scale national publicity mobilization,image is regarded as an effective means of publicity,widely used in the publicity work all over the country,and has obtained excellent mobilization effect.In the early days of the founding of the People’s Republic of China,the pictorial enterprise should have experienced the transformation from wartime to daily mode,but the emergence of anti-American aid to Korea made the working principles of People’s Illustrated,Comic Illustrated,and Northeast Illustrated gradually close to wartime,showing their own characteristics of political propaganda in the period of antiAmerican aid to Korea.Pictorial propaganda plays the "narrative" function of images.The political narrative of pictorial images can be divided into two important directions,that is,war narrative and image construction.In terms of war narrative,it is undoubtedly the primary task of pictorial image narrative to report the war dynamics of resisting the United States and aiding Korea and the heroic deeds of Chinese and Korean troops.In terms of image construction,as a tool to guide political opinions,pictorial consciously constructed the national images of the United States,North Korea and the Soviet Union,which were closely related to resisting the United States and aiding North Korea under the double background of the Cold War and the hot War,thus establishing a strong and distinct sense of friend and foe to the domestic people.The propaganda of pictorial also plays the "mobilization" function of images.Through the publication of images,pictorial mobilizes the widest range of people to actively participate in the movements of anti-American aid to North Korea.The images take various aspects involved in the anti-American aid to North Korea movement as the theme of performance,including complaints,setting up models,spiritual guidance of leaders,supporting troops and excellent families,safeguarding peace,health and epidemic prevention,anti-espionage and anti-espionage,etc.Mobilize the general public to actively respond to various policies of anti-American aid to North Korea,so as to achieve the goal of supporting the frontline war in North Korea and helping domestic economic construction.In addition,the echo between images and society involves the spread,acceptance and influence of pictorial,as well as the interaction between pictorial and the public.From the perspective of "image history",this paper presents the political culture,characteristics and connotation of The Times behind images,as well as the interaction between images and mass media,so as to provide a review of "visual politics".