Zou Taofen edited the three-day issue of "War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression"

◎ Yan Zechuan

Since the end of the 1920s, Mr. Zou Taofen, a well-known journalist and newspaper critic, has successively founded 11 kinds of progressive publications for the liberation of the Chinese nation, the realization of democratic politics and the development of progressive cultural undertakings.

On August 13, 1937, the Japanese army invading China launched the "August 13" Incident and launched a large-scale attack on Shanghai. Driven by the people's anti-Japanese upsurge, Zhang Zhizhong led the garrison to fight back and opened the prelude to the Songhu War of Resistance. "A scholar serves the country with nothing but a pen like a knife in his hand." In order to meet the needs of the situation, Zou Taofen quickly began to create a new journal of current affairs and political theory, and after just five days of intense preparations, on August 19, the three-day magazine of "Anti-Japanese War" edited by Zou Taofen and one of the main contributors was announced in Shanghai. Zou Taofen declared in his inaugural speech: "In this urgent period of the National War of Resistance, the task of this journal is, on the one hand, to systematically analyze and report on the domestic and international situations directly and indirectly related to the War of Resistance, and to show its significance and mutual relations; on the other hand, to reflect the urgent needs of the masses during the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and to contribute the results of our observation and discussion for the reference of the Chinese people." ”

The three-day issue of "War of Resistance" is a 16-folio edition, the first issue has two large sheets of 8 pages, and since then, each issue has three major sheets of 12 pages, and it is published on the third, sixth and ninth days. The title of the journal is printed in the middle above the cover, and the two large characters of the handwritten "War of Resistance" are solemn and full of combat atmosphere. The left side of the masthead is the main purpose of the journal, which is concise and clear. On the right is information such as the editor and publisher of the publication. In the second issue, the correspondence address "Shanghai P.O. Box Anti-Japanese War Three-Day Magazine No. 1508" was added, and in the sixth issue, the address of the "Shanghai Zhaojia Road Anti-Japanese War Three-Day Periodicals No. 75" was added. Each issue of the journal is accompanied by commentaries on major practical problems at home and abroad, conducts in-depth analysis, and proposes practical and feasible solutions.

The columns opened up in the three-day magazine of "War of Resistance" include analysis of the war situation, monograph commentary, communication between various parties, common sense of wartime, miscellaneous essays, poetry quotations, map cartoons, etc. For example, in the fifth issue of the "War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression," the first edition was "A Glance at the War Situation" written by Jin Zhonghua on the latest situation of the War of Resistance, followed by two commentaries by Zou Taofen himself, including "The Question of Traitors," and the article "The Basis of Political Mobilization" written by Pan Hannian and Fan Fang's field newsletter "The Rear of the Front." The editors organically combined the readability of the content, the readability of the layout, and the visibility of the illustrations, and the compact layout, strict order, relatively stable columns, and the coordination of illustrations and text layouts were rare in periodicals at that time.

Under the meticulous editing of Zou Taofen, the three-day magazine "War of Resistance" soon won the favor of the people of the whole country, from all classes in China to overseas Chinese, regardless of the front and rear, it has a large number of loyal readers. In particular, thousands of young people regard the "War of Resistance" as indispensable spiritual food and praise it as a "good teacher and good friend."

For this purpose, the three-day magazine of "War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression" has set up a special column of "Reader's Mailbox" and has maintained close contact with readers throughout the country at any time. Zou Taofen also called on readers to jointly run the newspaper, encouraging them to write newsletters and articles of various natures for the three-day magazine "War of Resistance" from different angles. The contents of the three-day magazine "War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression" are mainly based on current affairs, commentaries, and field communications, and have the characteristics of tabloids with strong current affairs and short publications. In addition to Zou Taofen, the main contributors to the journal are Jin Zhonghua, Hu Yuzhi, Guo Moruo, Zhang Zhongshi, Liu Xiang, Qian Junrui, Ai Siqi, Du Chongyuan and so on.

On September 9, 1937, when the third issue of the "War of Resistance" was issued to the seventh issue, it was forced to change its name to "Resistance" under the pressure of the shanghai concession authorities, which was still a three-day magazine (the same 16 folio), but due to the concerted efforts of the newspaper-running colleagues and the purpose of publication, the publications shipped to other places still used their original names.

The three-day issue of "War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression" published a number of articles publicizing the all-round War of Resistance and actively mobilizing the broad masses of the people to participate in the salvation movement. For example, Pan Hannian's "The Foundation of Political Mobilization in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression of the Whole People," "Basic Issues of Mass Mobilization," Wang Renshu's "Military Government and the People," and Li Gongpu's "Letter of National Mobilization to the People." All these articles point out: In order to win the final victory in the War of Resistance, it is impossible to rely solely on the government and the army to resist the war, and it is necessary to extensively mobilize the military and the people to participate in the anti-Japanese salvation movement in order to make up for the deficiencies in China's military and other fields and to break through the war dream of the Japanese invading army of "quick war and quick decision." The three-day magazine "War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression" also actively propagated the political stand of the Communist Party of China, publishing "Zhu De et al.'s Inaugural Anti-War Telegram -- Resolutely Resisting the War of Resistance and Unity of Will, And Forming a City," and "Declaration of the Communist Party of China on the Current Situation," and from the 59th to the 71st issue, it continuously published "Records of the Border Regions" written by war correspondent Shu Xiang, reporting on the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region from 13 aspects, including politics, culture, education, and economy, and praising the CPC's policy and achievements in the War of Resistance.

After the publication of the 25th issue on November 9, 1937, due to the fall of Shanghai, Zou Taofen, Jin Zhonghua and others detoured to Hong Kong, Guilin, Hengyang and Changsha to Wuhan, and published the 30th issue in Wuhan on December 23, and restored the original name of the three-day magazine "War of Resistance". On July 7, 1938, after the publication of the Third Day of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression to the 86th issue, it was merged with the "National Weekly" (edited by Liu Xiang), which was published on December 11, 1937, and was published in the fifth issue of Volume 2, and was renamed the Three-Day Magazine of the War of Resistance of the Whole People. Publication serial numbers start from scratch. It is edited by Zou Taofen, Shen Junru and other editors-in-chief.

The Three-Day Magazine of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was the best of the large number of anti-Japanese publications founded after the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression; with the propaganda of anti-Japanese salvation as the core, it shouted out the strongest voice of the times, led countless patriotic young people to embark on the road of revolution, and produced a broad and profound impact.