Journal of Southwest Petroleum University(Social Sciences Edition) ›› 2025, Vol. 27 ›› Issue (5): 1-11.

• COMMEMORATE THE 80TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE VICTORY OF THE CHINESE PEOPLE'S WAR OF RESISTANCE AGAINST JAPANESE AGGRESSION AND THE WORLD ANTI-FASCIST WAR •     Next Articles

Construction of the CPC's Mobilization Discourse of the War of Resistance in the Yan'an Period: A Study of the Reports of Party Newspapers and Magazines

LI Xuelin, BAI Qiumei   

  1. School of Marxism, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu Sichuan, 610500, China
  • Published:2025-10-24

Abstract: Party newspapers and magazines are a sharp weapon for political parties to spread their political ideas and to carry out propaganda and agitation. During the Yan'an period, in order to resolve the national crisis and improve the backward economic and cultural state of the border areas, the party newspapers and magazines constructed, interpreted and disseminated the mobilization discourse system of the War of Resistance, leaving a large amount of literatures. By systematically sorting out and interpreting these materials, this paper summarizes, from the perspective of "the other", the dimensions of the mobilization discourse construction such as the simultaneous development of nationalism and class consciousness, the integration of heroic narrative and mass mobilization, the coordination of policy propagation and social mobilization, and the match of cultural symbols and emotional mobilization. This discourse system gathers the strength of the people by maximizing the resources of the border areas, strives for strengthening the anti-Japanese aggression forces by joining the people of all walks of life, and wins international support by urging the joint boycott of the Japanese army. It not only had a positive effect at the time, but also mobilized the whole Chinese people to realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

Key words: mobilization discourse of the War of Resistance, the Yan'an period, party newspaper party magazine, propaganda reports, the Communist Party of China

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