Pictured: Zhang Jiluan (front row, first from right) at the "Celebration of ta Kung Pao's acceptance of the University of Missouri Honorary Award" in 1941. Ta Kung Pao is the only Chinese media to receive this award to date
November 8 is China Journalists' Day. As the world's oldest Chinese-language newspaper, Ta Kung Pao has also produced many excellent journalists and editors. The Encyclopedia of China (Press and Publication Volume) has set up special entries for 105 outstanding journalists in modern times, of which 13 are Ta Kung Pao. When talking about the historical contribution of the Ta Kung Pao, Premier Zhou Enlai particularly emphasized that the Ta Kung Pao "cultivated many talents" for China's journalism. Ta Kung Pao was hailed as the "Whampoa Military Academy of the Press".
On this special day, let us reminisce about some famous journalists and editors in the history of the Ta Kung Pao, and remember these journalistic predecessors.
The "New Record" Sanjie casts a model for the press
Pictured: On September 1, 1926, Zhang Jiluan, in the name of a reporter from the Ta Kung Pao, published an article on the front page entitled "The Interests of the People of the Society", proposing the "four noes" policy of "not party, no sale, no selfishness, and no blindness"
The Ta Kung Pao was founded in Tianjin on June 17, 1902, and the museum tried to make a concession, and the founder was the Manchu Qing Dynasty Red Banner Man Yingzhi. In 1926, after Wu Dingchang joined forces with Zhang Jiluan and Hu Zhengzhi to form the "Xinji Company" to take over the Ta Kung Pao, this old North China newspaper formed the "troika" business model of Wu, Zhang and Hu, with Wu Dingchang as president, Hu Zhengzhi as general manager, and Zhang Jiluan as editor-in-chief.
Hu Zhengzhi
As a journalist, Hu Zhengzhi was the only Chinese journalist to cover the Paris Peace Conference. As the boss, he let the total circulation of the Ta Kung Pao increase from a few thousand copies at the beginning to 200,000 copies and became a national newspaper, sparing no effort to recruit, promote and cultivate a number of talents such as Fan Changjiang, Xu Zhucheng, Xiao Qian, Zhu Qiping, and Jin Yong, and later became famous all over the world. During his 60 years of life, he served in the Gazette for 27 years. Journalists commented that he had "the deepest roots and the greatest contribution" to the Ta Kung Pao.
Zhang Jiluan
Zhang Jiluan studied in Japan in 1905 and returned to China in 1911. After the Xinhai Revolution, he served as the secretary of Sun Yat-sen, the provisional president of the Republic of China, participated in the drafting of important documents such as the "Declaration on the Inauguration of the Provisional President", and sent out the first news telegram after the founding of the Republic of China. At a time when the country was in trouble, Zhang Jiluan replaced the gun with a pen, served the country with his remarks, and encouraged the Chinese nation to go to the country to fight against japan, and its role was even more crucial than the knife and gun.
In 1936, the Xi'an Incident broke out. Zhang Jiluan issued a number of editorials in succession, one of which was "An Open Letter to the Military Circles in Xi'an" advising the officers and men of the Northeast Army that they would not mislead the country and the people, demanded that Zhang Xueliang and others release Chiang Kai-shek unconditionally, and that Zhang Xueliang make reparations to Chiang Kai-shek. This editorial is very reasonable, especially the situation of the Northeast Army and its encounter, which is extremely thorough. The newspaper was printed by the Nationalist government in 400,000 copies and airdropped in Xi'an City. Several senior military generals in the northeast who participated in the incident at that time once said: "The Ta Kung Pao's "Open Letter to the Xi'an Military Circles" has become one of the important documents in modern history, and its effect is definitely greater than that of the 'Chu Song' in the Chu-Han struggle for hegemony." This editorial played a major role at a historical juncture and promoted the peaceful settlement of the Xi'an Incident.
Wang Yunsheng
Wang Yunsheng, pen name old news reporter, ancestral home of Jinghai, Hebei.
In the summer of 1929, he entered the Tianjin Ta Kung Pao and became famous for writing "Sixty Years of China and Japan".
In September 1941, he became the editor-in-chief of the Chongqing Ta Kung Pao and presided over the Ta Kung Pao speeches. In 1946, after the establishment of the General Management Office of The Gazette, he served as editor-in-chief and director of the Editorial Committee.
In the early days of the founding of New China, he served as the editor-in-chief of the Shanghai Ta Kung Pao and later the director of the Beijing Ta Kung Pao. He was a deputy to the National People's Congress, a member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and a vice chairman of the All-China Journalists Association. Vice President of the China-Japan Friendship Association. He is the author of "Yunsheng Wencun", "China and Japan in the Past Sixty Years", "History of Taiwan" and so on.
Battlefield Heroes Record history
Fan Changjiang
Fan Changjiang was born in 1909, a native of Neijiang, Sichuan. Fan Changjiang, as an amateur correspondent, wrote vividly and profoundly, and was appreciated by Hu Zhengzhi, the general manager of ta kung Pao. Hu Zhengzhi, who was a meritocracy, went to Beiping to meet Fan Changjiang, hoping that he would write a special article for the Ta Kung Pao, and the newspaper would pay him a fixed manuscript fee of 15 yuan per month, instead of being paid according to the manuscript. Since then, Fan Changjiang has officially stepped onto the news stage.
In July 1935, Fan Changjiang began his famous travel expedition from Chengdu, Sichuan Province, as a reporter for the Ta Kung Pao. This trip and expedition lasted 10 months, non-stop, boats and cars, traveled more than 6,000 miles, footprints throughout Sichuan, Shaanxi, Qinghai, Gansu, Inner Mongolia and other five northwestern provinces and regions, painstakingly wrote a large number of travel communications, sent back to Tianjin, for the first time in the Grand Gazette openly and truthfully reported the red army's Long March and the recent situation in the northwest, exposed all kinds of maladministrations of those in power in the northwest region, and showed the political, economic, military, cultural, and ethnic issues in the northwest in front of the readers. Snow's coverage of the Long March was more than a year earlier.
The Ta Kung Pao Publishing Department has integrated Fan Changjiang's newsletter into a volume, named "China's Northwest Corner", which is publicly distributed nationwide, republished nine times, and printed more than 100,000 copies in total.
Fang Dazeng
Fang Dazeng, formerly known as Fang Dezeng, was a pioneer and outstanding photographer of Chinese war correspondents, and the first person to report on the Suiyuan War of Resistance and the "Lugou Bridge Incident" in an all-round way. Fang Hanqi, founding president of the China Journalism History Society and honorary first-class professor of Chinese Min University, commented that "Fan Changjiang and Fang Da Zeng have twin peaks, two water flows, one is longer than words, one is longer than photography, it is the twin peaks in the history of Chinese journalism, which can coexist in the world, history, and books." ”
Fang Da was once hired by the Ta Kung Pao as a war correspondent, and under the pseudonym "Xiao Fang", he successively published battlefield newsletters such as "Frontline Remembrance of Beiping", "South of Baoding", "North of Baoding", and took a large number of precious photos. On September 30, 1937, "Changes in the Northern Section of the Pinghan Line," published in the Ta Kung Pao, became the 25-year-old war correspondent's masterpiece.
Zhu Qiping
Zhu Qiping joined the Chongqing Ta Kung Pao in the autumn of 1940. In 1944, as a commissioner of the Grand Gazette, he was interviewed with the U.S. Pacific Fleet. On August 15, 1945, Japan announced its unconditional surrender. On the morning of September 2, 1945, he was one of the three Chinese journalists who boarded the American battleship "Missouri" moored in Tokyo Bay to interview japan's signing of the surrender ceremony, and then he wrote a 4,000-word newsletter "Sunset", which was published in the Ta Kung Pao, with a strong response, and was recognized as a "masterpiece", and many books describing the War of Resistance Against Japan and World War II reprinted this article. Later, it was included in the university's journalism textbook.
Xiao Qian
Xiao Qian is a famous modern Chinese journalist, writer and translator, he was the only Chinese reporter in the entire European battlefield during World War II, and he was also the first reporter to go deep into the line of fire in Yunnan during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and wrote the famous news feature "The Burma Road Made of Flesh and Blood"; From his widow to yenching University, from literary and artistic youth to war correspondents, from news works to translations, etc., looking back on the past and recalling everyone, ta kung pao has achieved Xiao Qian's journalistic career, and Ta Kung Pao is also proud of Xiao Qian.
The Martial Arts Grandmaster was born
Pictured: Jin Yong returned to the Ta Kung Pao Newspaper Library in 2009 to visit, personally inscribed "Freedom of Comment, Truth Is Sacred" in eight big characters, and wrote "Jin Yong respectfully gave the old master the Ta Kung Communiqué" on the end of the money.
Cha Liangyong
Zha Liangyong, pen name "Jin Yong", was born in 1924 in Haining, Zhejiang. In 1944, he was admitted to the Department of Foreign Affairs of Chongqing Central Chengchi University, and two years later he went to Shanghai Soochow Law School to study international law. In October 1947, he was admitted to the Shanghai Ta Kung Pao as an international telecommunications translator with excellent performance, transferred to Hong Kong in 1948, compiled the Hong Kong Ta Kung Pao in 1949, and then served as the editor of the New Evening News, a sub-newspaper of the Ta Kung Pao. As a journalist, Jin Yong wrote reviews under his real name, Zha Liangyong, and successively published film reviews in the New Evening News and Ta Kung Pao under the pseudonyms of "Yao Fulan", "Lin Zichang", "Xiao Zijia" and "Yao Jiayi". Among them, he wrote about 500 film reviews in the New Evening News under the pseudonyms "Yao Fulan" and "Lin Zichang", and published about 600 film reviews in the Ta Kung Pao under the pseudonyms of "Xiao Zijia" and "Yao Jiayi".
In February 1955, Jin Yong's "Book of Swords and Enmity" began to be published in the New Evening News. In 1956, Jin Yong, together with Chen Fan and Chen Wentong (Liang Yusheng's real name), wrote the column "Essays on the Three Swords Building". In February 1959, Jin Yong's novel "Snow Mountain Flying Fox" was serialized in the New Evening News. In April 2009, he returned to the Ta Kung Pao Newspaper Library to visit, personally inscribed "Freedom of Comment, Facts Are Sacred" in eight big characters, and wrote "Jin Yong respectfully gave the old master the Ta Kung Communiqué" in the end of the money.
Liang Yusheng
Chen Wentong, pen name "Liang Yusheng", was born in 1922 in Mengshan, Guangxi, and graduated from the Department of Economics of Lingnan University in Guangzhou. In 1949, he settled in Hong Kong and joined the Ta Kung Pao, where he served as a supplement editor of the New Evening News and a writer for the Ta Kung Pao. That is, under the pseudonym Liang Yusheng, he created the first martial arts novel "Dragon Tiger Fighting Jinghua", which was widely popular in the "New Evening News". He has created 35 novels and 160 volumes of works such as "Ping Trace Hero Video", "The Legend of the White-Haired Witch", "The Legend of Saiwai Qixia", "Seven Swords Under the Heavenly Mountain", etc., most of which were serialized in the Ta Kung Pao and the New Evening News, pioneering the new martial arts literary atmosphere.
Don't let the eyebrows be shaved
Yang Gang
Yang Gang, formerly known as Ji Hui, was born in January 1905 in Pingxiang, Jiangxi, and entered Yenching University in Beiping in 1928, majoring in English literature. On September 1, 1939, Yang began to work in the Hong Kong Ta Kung Pao, succeeding Xiao Qian as the editor-in-chief of the two supplements of Literature and Art and Student Circles. Beginning in About July 1942, as a special correspondent of the Ta Kung Pao, she and the Australian journalist Bei Qifeng went to the southeast front to conduct war reports, and sent out more than 10 news newsletters from Hunan, Jiangxi, Fujian, and Guangdong, reflecting the tragic situation of the people under the iron hooves of the Japanese Kou. In 1943, the Ta Kung Pao appointed Yang Gang as a diplomatic reporter and editor-in-chief of the literature and art edition. In March 1945, Yang Gang went on a study trip to the southern United States, and later served as a special correspondent for the Ta Kung Pao in the United States. She attended U.S. President Harry S. Truman's press conference as a special correspondent, becoming the first Chinese female journalist to attend a press conference held by the President of the United States.
Source: Ta Kung Pao