Dominant Newspapers And Periodicals Disseminating Foreign Culture In Chongqing Anti-Japanese War Literature

There is a long history and a glorious tradition of translating and introducing foreign culture in China.It has greatly changed the culture and society of China overall ever since neo-cultural movement.From the earliest newspaper Yu Post to the earliest literary journal Spring Cloud The dissemination of foreign culture has been all along valued by newspapers and periodicals issued in Chongqing.During the anti-Japanese War, Chongqing became the political, economical,military and cultural center of China. A great batch of cultural societies, cultural workers,such as famous writers and translators, and some newspapers and periodicals moved there. They greatly speeded up the development of Chongqing-based newspapers and periodicals industry,and a large number of influential newspapers and periodicals came into being. Under the historical background in which Chinese people have been fighting against the invasion from Japan and worldwide people had been involved in the war against the military and cultural aggression of the fascistic nations, a great quantity of cultural workers gathering in Chongqing like writers and translators attached great importance to the translation and introduction of foreign culture by taking foreign literary as its main part. They inherited and carried forward with high enthusiasms the glorious neo-cultural movements tradition of valuing the introduction of foreign culture since having modern newspapers and periodicals in Chongqing,holding the times themes of"anti-Japanese War and building the nation"and"anti-fascist",taking the standpoint against the military and cultural invasion from fascistic nations and adopting the literary columns and literary newspapers and periodicals as their main media.They had introduced abundant excellent foreign culture to Chinese readers and brought another wave of introducing foreign culture in Chinese history. A large amount of translated works were carried in literary columns and literary periodicals in the dominant newspapers and periodicals such as Xinhua Daily, Central Daily, Ta Kung Report, Sino-soviet Culture, Culture international, Cultural Herald, Anti-Literature and July.It was,to some degree,expressed by these works the times themes,the attitude and standpoint of these publications.These newspapers and periodicals mainly propagated the excellent culture of the leading antifascist nations like Soviet, USA, British and France, which includes abundant fields varying from politics, economy, military, diplomacy, science and technology, history, philosophy,literary and so forth. All these greatly widened Chinese field of vision,and deepened their understanding of international culture,and strengthened the friendship and unity between Chinese and people across the world, and enriched and flourished Chongqing anti-Japanese War culture,moreover,by providing precious spiritual motives for the great cause of"anti-Japanese War and building the nation"and encouraging Chinese nations to fight against the aggression from outside, they played a significant role in the justical war against the military and cultural invasion from fascistic nation including Japan. The introduction to plenty of foreign literary works and theories like novels, drama, poems and proses provided precious reference in the fields of literary creation and theoretical construction for literary workers in Chongqing and even the whole nation.It was also the organized part of Chongqing anti-Japanese war literary movements.