JAPANESE PROPAGANDA IN NORTH CHINA, 1937–1938
JAPANESE PROPAGANDA IN NORTH CHINA, 1937–1938
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日本在华北的宣传,1937 年至 1938 年
DOI:
10.1086/265341
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发表时间:
1939
影响因子:
3.4
通讯作者:
D. N. Rowe
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作者:
D. N. Rowe
Dr. Rowe, who was born in Nanking and lived in China through his youth, is a graduate of Princeton and received hit doctorate in Far Eajtern history at the University of Chicago in 1935. He haj aught and studied at the University of Southern California, Chicago, Harvard, and Princeton, where he it now lecturer in the School of Public Affairs. As explained below, this article deals with posters and handbills, the book and pamphlet material collected by Dr. Rowc on die same trip being the object of further study now in progress. Aside from the bearing of Dr. Rowe's findings on current international problems, the article will be welcome to students of public opinion as an unusual and pertinent case study in the technique of propaganda._L he materials upon which this study is based are the leaflets and posters collected while the writer was in residence at Peiping (Peking) from September 5, 1937, to July 25, 1938. They consist of approximately a hundred items, for the most part actual documents but in some cases official Japanese army photographs of the material. These documents and photographs were easily secured. In fact some of them were showered down by the thousands from Japanese airplanes, and others were scattered from military trucks driven through city streets. Such items as were not distributed in Peking were to be secured there from Japanese army officials. The official army propaganda agencies began functioning immediately on occupation of Peking by the Imperial Army in July 1937. Such were the" Propaganda Division of the Tientsin [Japanese] Army" and the" Propaganda Division of the North China [Japanese] Expeditionary Force." Their efforts were directed toward three groups of people—the Chinese masses, the foreign neutrals in the occupied areas, and the Japanese on their own" home front." Appeals to these differing groups required the use of various languages. 1 But the content of the propaganda was highly