From journalists to officeholders:The Career Choices of KMT’s Propaganda Administrators An discussion focused on Dong Xianguang,Zeng Xubai and Ma Xingye

Wang Mingliang,Qin Han

Chinese Journal of Journalism & Communication ›› 2015, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (10) : 127-148.

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Chinese Journal of Journalism & Communication ›› 2015, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (10) : 127-148.

From journalists to officeholders:The Career Choices of KMT’s Propaganda Administrators An discussion focused on Dong Xianguang,Zeng Xubai and Ma Xingye

  • Wang Mingliang is a doctoral student at school of Journalism and Communication in Jinan University. Email: 727794118@qq.com. Qin Han is Joint PhD. Student of School of Journalism and Communication, Renmin University of China and Department of Communication at the University of California, San Diego. 20110051113@cyu.edu.cn.
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This thesis attempts to interpret the inner conflict and entanglement of journalists in KMT and takes Dong Xianguang,Zeng Xubai and Ma Xingye for example, who are in a dilemma between “Liberty & Democracy” and “Country & Confucian Orthodoxy” in an age of deepening national crisis. It can be concluded that role conflicts and contradiction existed in various degree in those journalists in system of KMT, who have been imbued with liberalism. As advocators of liberalism, they identify the concept and yearn for the freedom of journalism, but they have been cultivated by the traditional Confucianism from an early age and inherit those virtues from traditional literati, such as patriotic and loyalty to the monarch, first concern about the world. They accept the idea“saving the nation overriding at the cost of freedom”and put into practice coincidently by participating in propaganda department of KMT in face of internal and external troubles. However, that also makes them caught in a dilemma, when facing with party members & journalists, party discipline & professional ethics. The attraction of power and system make them less accessible to the participation in the administration and discussion of state affairs, and eventually they become technical officers of the hierarchical system of KMT.

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KMT / Journalists / Role Confusion / Career Choice

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Wang Mingliang,Qin Han. From journalists to officeholders:The Career Choices of KMT’s Propaganda Administrators An discussion focused on Dong Xianguang,Zeng Xubai and Ma Xingye[J]. Chinese Journal of Journalism & Communication. 2015, 37(10): 127-148

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This paper is a part of the research project “Study of History of the Chinese Communist Party City Newspapers(1921-1949)” (Project Number:15BXW010)sponsored the National 128 Social Science Found.
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