Images of Russia in the Cantonment Series of the Early Twentieth Century (1903–1912)

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10.2991/978-2-38476-323-8_63How to use a DOI?

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The Universal Progressive Journal; Russia; Image; Sino-Russian relations

Abstract

The Universal Progressive Journal has been an important window through which Chinese society has observed the world, as one of the most important newspapers in modern Sichuan and Chongqing. Russia was always an important object of its coverage. The newspaper's main images of Russia were of a ‘brutal country’, an ‘enemy of the north’ and a ‘despot’. An analysis of the newspaper's coverage of the image of Russia shows that the fear of losing the country under the threat of Russia, the dissatisfaction with the emergence of sovereignty consciousness, and the expectation of ‘using Russia as a metaphor for China’ were the internal motives for the The Universal Progressive Journal to end up portraying the image of Russia in this way. This is of profound significance for understanding the awareness and thinking of intellectuals in the Chinese southwest region about the national crisis at that time.

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AU  - Xiao Ma
PY  - 2024
DA  - 2024/12/23
TI  - Images of Russia in the Cantonment Series of the Early Twentieth Century (1903–1912)
BT  - Proceedings of the 2024 7th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2024)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 535
EP  - 548
SN  - 2352-5398
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