Red China,the official newspaper of the Chinese Soviet Central government,had rich image resources,containing numerous illustrations and"group pictures",and had rich image elements of maps,charts,journal(edition)head paintings and other pages.Similar phenomenon occurred in oth-er newspapers in the Central Soviet area,which can be regarded as the"image turn"in the history of the Communist Party of China."Image turn"occurred in the central Soviet area was the inevitable trend of history.The cruel war environment required the red press to undertake the responsibility of revolu-tionary mobilization,which provided an opportunity for the"image turn"of the press;and the estab-lishment of the Chinese Soviet regime and the development of the Soviet art cause provided the necessa-ry conditions for this turn.All images adopt the narrative framework of"conflict"to construct the bi-nary opposition between the just league composed of the Chinese Soviet Union and the Soviet Union and the evil camp composed of the Kuomintang and the imperialism represented by Japan.The shaping and dissemination of these two kinds of images,strengthened the general public's confidence in the leader-ship of the Communist Party of China and the determination to take the Soviet road,increased the ha-tred of the general public to the Kuomintang and the imperialists,and made a certain contribution to the smooth development of the revolutionary mobilization.
Red ChinaImageImage Turnthe Chinese Soviet Central Government