The Study Of Zhina Incident Pictorial

Pictorial magazine is the kind of newspaper that regards the visual forms of painting and photography as the main medias. Pictures that are full of various symbols and publicity elements will give a deep impression on the target of publicity. As what Lippmann said, picture is the most reliable method of spreading ideas. The world war I saw the emergency of various kinds of news pictorial magazines which gained the preference of readers who paid attention on wars. Pictorial magazine played an unexpected role in the publicity of wars. There were a bulk of pictorial magazines in the period of world war II.With the outburst of the September 18th Incident, Japanese authority began to combine the purpose of publicity and choose the special perspective to publish the special with the center of news pictures. After two or three years of July 7th Incident,there were double kinds of pictorial magazines and photo albums that was named as Shina Incident. It included “Shina Incident Pictorial Magazine","Local Army Pictorial Magazine of Shina Incident","Memorial Album Card of Shina Incident","Album Record of Local Army of Shina Incident","Album of Shina Incident","Memorial Album of Expeditions of Shina Incident" and "Memorial Album of Jihad of Shina Incident". Of which the "Pictorial Magazine of Shina Incident" published by Tokyo Daily News Office and Osaka Daily News Service was one of the most representative one. It was established on Aug. 3rd 1937 and ended in Oct. 1941. Except for the temporary additional journals, it was issued 101 terms one after another. It not only mainly concentrated on all wars and situations of Japan's invasion during 1937 to 1942, but also re-presented the historical pictures of the military invasion, political control,economic plunder and the cultural infiltration implemented by Japan following July 7th Incident.As the pictorial magazine operated by Japanese, the public content of "Pictorial Magazine of Shina Incident" kept the same tone with the steps of Japan's invasion war.With the center of China-Japan war, it on one hand spared no effort to impart the conscious of the gallant Japanese army and excellent outcomes to national citizens so as to induce their support to the war. On the other hand, it took the close relationship between Chinese and Japanese and Great East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere as the excuse to paralyze Chinese to provide colonial expansion service for Japan. It also advocated the assistance for Chinese and the establishment in China to cover up the essential of invasion."Pictorial Magazine of Shina Incident" is the military record of Japanese army during the period of China-Japan war and also the firm prove of Japan's invasion,which provides the materials and examples for modern and contemporary Chinese history, especially for the research of invasion wars.