The Observer Weekly And The Liberalistic "the Intellectuals' Debated Politics By Virtue Of Private Journalism" In The Later 1940s Of China

The Observer weekly whose chief editor was Chu An-ping is the last milestone in the history of"the Intellectuals'Debated Politics by virtue of Private Journalism", as well as the reflection of the boom and silence for the development of liberalism.Along with the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Chinese intellectuals had unprecedented passion for the politics. In addition to serving the government and organizing a party, most of the intellectuals chose private journalism to express their political views. So,"the Intellectuals'Debated Politics by virtue of Private Journalism"became the most important way for intellectuals to realize their political ideals and to display their scholarship. Because of so many reasons, whether those intellectuals were conservative or jacobinical, most of them were liberalists. Their strong belief in liberalism came from western democratic ideology, and was significantly affected by the external environment home and abroad. This special Chinese"liberalism"was clearly reflected in the"the Intellectuals'Debated Politics by virtue of Private Journalism". As the most famous current affairs magazine, Chu An-ping's the Observer was not only the important position of the"the Intellectuals'Debated Politics by virtue of Private Journalism", but also a banner of liberalism.With the founding of New China, most intellectuals rapidly shifted to socialism. Then, the Observer beaome the last supper of the liberalistic"the Intellectuals'Debated Politics by virtue of Private Journalism"in China. This research attempts the method with which we could make a study of the historical documents. Combining with the development of"the Intellectuals'Debated Politics by virtue of Private Journalism", I will take the Observer as the case and to detect its liberalistic connotation and to recover part of its realistic nature.This research is divided into the following four parts:(1) This part will introduce the known research results, the reason of chosing the case and the research method.(2) This part will analyse the two headwaters of"the Intellectuals'Debated Politics by virtue of Private Journalism". Then, this part will go through the"Debated Politics"history and decode the reason of its boom after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, as well as showing the successful management of the Observer and its important position.(3) This part will recall the development of liberalism in western world and China, then analyse the contents of the Observer which was the embodiment of liberalism.(4) This part will discuss the problem with the case of the Observer that why liberalism could not become the engine of national development in that time, and recover the piece of history that the Intellectuals faced reality seriously.