War,Politics And Women:A Study Of Social Mobilization In Modern Women(1943-1949)

"Modern Women" is a comprehensive women's publication that had a great influence in the Nationalist Region in the 1940 s.It is also a representative of an excellent publication for mobilizing women under the leadership of the Communist Party of China.It was born when the women's journals in the Kuomintang District were most scarce,and it carried the great mission of the Communist Party of China to mobilize women in the Kuomintang District at that time.The issue persisted for six years before and after,witnessing many important moments in Chinese society's transition from tradition to modern times.Under the leadership of the Communist Party of China,it closely focuses on the principles and policies of the Communist Party of China on women's movements in various periods,and constantly promotes women's liberation and national liberation.It not only propagates and leads women to win the final victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan,but also uses its own powerful public opinion many times.Leading women to participate in campaigns for democracy,opposition to civil wars,and authoritarian rule has played an important role in achieving women's self-liberation and national liberation.The widespread social mobilization of women by the Communist Party of China is an important factor in achieving victory in the war of resistance and women's liberation.As an important means of mobilization,newspapers and periodicals are widely used in the mobilization of women.The key to women's mobilization.This article takes "Modern Women" as the inspection center and comprehensively uses methods such as history,philology and statistics to focus on the content and methods of the mobilization of women in the Kuomintang through the "Modern Women" in the late Anti-Japanese War and the entire period of the Liberation War.And characteristics,and systematically summarize the mobilization effect and objectively evaluate the limitations in the entire mobilization work.Apart from the introduction,the full text is divided into four parts.The first part is the overall introduction of the journal,including the background,purpose,distribution,editor group and main column contents of the journal.The second part is to examine the focus of this journal on the content of women's social mobilization.The author has refined the three key points of the journal's women's mobilization,namely,dilapidation,innovation and fraternity.Dilapidation means mobilizing women to get rid of feudal shackles,fighting for more rights,and preferring women to liberate themselves;Lixin is to change the tradition that women rarely ask about political and national affairs,mobilize women to participate in national salvation and political struggles,and stimulate women's National consciousness and ownership consciousness;fraternity is to mobilize women in wartime,to promote the gentle traits of female fraternity,and is actively committed to the relief of hard-to-treat,anti-affiliate and prostitute groups.The third part discusses the mobilization methods and strategies of the journal.Through a variety of flexible and scientific mobilization strategies,it shows the world the charm of mobilization guided by public opinion and lays an important foundation for women's social mobilization.The fourth part is an evaluation of the women's social mobilization in the journal,which not only effectively combated discrimination against women's employment,contributed to the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan,but also increased women's political participation.However,when sorting out the women's mobilization achievements made by the journal,it is not difficult to see that there are certain limitations.For example,public opinion is more biased toward the national level,and the breadth and depth of mobilization of middle-and lower-level women and minority women are not enough.In any case,the journal is an excellent publication for women's social mobilization,and it has made important contributions to women's liberation and national liberation and has positive historical significance.