"A Day in Jizhong":Women Emerging as a Leading Force in the People Communications Scripted by People
"A Day in Jizhong(northern central China)"was a movement in 1941 to celebrate the third anniversary of the founding of the Jizhong Liberated Base Area that involved hundreds of thousands of people writing scripts.It was organized by the government of Jizhong Liberated Base Area to instigate a large-scale and in-depth people cultural communications against the background of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Invasion entering a stalemate and the Japanese military conducting brutal sweeping operations against the base areas behind the Japanese occupations.This article examines the organizational mechanisms and social mobilization functions of the movement of"A Day in Jizhong"from the perspective of people communications in four aspects.Firstly,the"one-day-event"of people communications stretching from the urban center of Shanghai's"A Day in China"to"A Day in Jizhong"in the base areas behind the occupation brought forth changes in the spatial transition.Secondly,"A Day in Jizhong"called for submissions of scripts by relying on the network of people organizations serving as the institutional basis for people communications.Thirdly,the scripts adopted by"A Day in Jizhong"by and large reflected the construction of new life in the base area and the organization of women as an active force.Fourth-ly,women's participation in"A Day in Jizhong"through the medium of submitting their scripts achieved multiple functions including people communications and cultural construction.
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