Academic Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences, 2025, 8(7); doi: 10.25236/AJHSS.2025.080713.
Ying Zhang1, Qiong Wu2, Yujiao Hou2
1School of History and Culture, Hebei Minzu Normal University, Chengde, 067000, Hebei, China
2School of History and Culture, Chifeng University, Chifeng, 024000, Inner Mongolia, China
This article focuses on the propaganda archives and documents of the Great Wall during the Anti-Japanese War in 1933. Through systematic collection and organization of official documents, military archives, news reports, civilian flyers, literary works, and other types of historical materials, a relatively complete system of propaganda documents for the Great Wall Anti-Japanese War is constructed. Combining historical analysis methods and interdisciplinary perspectives, the practical logic and historical effectiveness of propaganda mobilization during this period are deeply explored. Research has shown that the Great Wall's anti-Japanese propaganda and mobilization presented the characteristics of "diverse collaboration, strategic adjustment, and media innovation", forming a unique paradigm of local anti-Japanese mobilization. Its historical achievements are complex, with positive breakthroughs in building a unified discourse and shaping national spiritual symbols, as well as limitations in the era such as imbalanced allocation of propaganda resources. Meanwhile, its historical experience provides important insights for contemporary patriotic education and the construction of the national mobilization system. This study fills the gap in the compilation of propaganda literature on the Great Wall's resistance against Japan, providing a new perspective for understanding the formation and evolution of China's anti-Japanese mobilization system.
Great Wall Anti-Japanese War; Promote Archival Documents; Literature Collection and Organization; Mobilization for the War of Resistance against Japan; Mobilization Paradigm
Ying Zhang, Qiong Wu, Yujiao Hou. Research on the Collection, Organization, and Mobilization of Anti-Japanese Propaganda Archives and Documents on the Great Wall. Academic Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences (2025), Vol. 8, Issue 7: 96-101. https://doi.org/10.25236/AJHSS.2025.080713.
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