Shanghai Daily, a red periodical that studies the world, is a newspaper engaged in guerrilla warfare.

In April 1927, after the failure of the First Great Revolution, the Kuomintang gradually established a news network serving the counter-revolutionary cause, represented by the Central News Agency, the Central Daily and the China National Radio, and monopolized the press and publication in the Kuomintang-controlled areas, and successively promulgated a series of restrictions on freedom of speech and publication, such as the Regulations on Censorship of Publications, the Provisional Counter-revolutionary Criminal Law, the Principles of Publication Regulations, the Regulations on Censorship of Publicity Materials and the Order on Banning Various Anonymous Publications. As a result, the Communist Party of China (CPC)’s journalism was greatly destroyed, and the revolutionary newspaper system established during the Great Revolution was completely destroyed.

△ "Shanghai Daily"

In order to counter the cultural autocracy of the Kuomintang and meet the needs of the development of mass struggle, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China at that time, considering that the weekly Red Flag, which was founded in 1928, could not meet the needs of the unpredictable revolutionary situation, decided to set up a daily newspaper, with Li Qiushi, then propaganda minister of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, as the editor-in-chief and Xie Juezai, Li Bingzhong and other comrades as co-editors. On April 17th, 1929, Shanghai Daily was founded as Vernacular Daily, with workers as the main readers. It was a newspaper guiding the workers’ movement in jiangsu provincial party committee, the Communist Party of China (CPC). Shortly after its publication, Vernacular Daily had a great influence on some workers and aroused the suspicion of the Kuomintang, so it had to be published elsewhere. On May 19th of the same year, Vernacular Daily was renamed as Shanghai Daily, and the editorial department published Please read the minimum goods under the pseudonym of Laoyuan, pointing out that "unlike other newspapers designed for adults, Shanghai Daily is intended for friends in the society at least. They are long works, but we are short sayings. They are very expensive, at least one yuan and a few cents a month, and I only need twenty cents a month. They only say what Mr. Adult has to say. I want to say what friends in society have to say at least. In short, they are just the mouthpiece of Mr. Adult. I want to be friends of friends in society at least! " However, two weeks after its publication, Shanghai Daily was banned, the printing bureau was blocked and its boss was arrested. In such a harsh environment, Shanghai Daily was renamed Tiansheng (published for two days), Chenguang (published for three days), Hujiang Daily (published for more than two months) and Maritime Daily (published for more than four months).After a tenacious struggle under the white terror, the original name of Shanghai Daily was restored on November 12, 1929.

△ Vernacular Daily No.22

△ Shanghai Daily No.1 on May 19, 1929

The newspaper was founded less than a year ago. Under the severe persecution of imperialism and the Kuomintang, it changed its name and publishing address many times. During this period, the chief writer, the newspaper delivery person and the special correspondent were all devastated, but everyone always tried their best to expand the influence and distribution scope of the newspaper, which can be said to be a "guerrilla war" newspaper. Although it is a tabloid daily, it publicizes many contents, such as the struggle of the working class in Shanghai, the development of revolutionary base areas, the news of the Red Army movement, the revolutionary movements in various countries, etc., so that readers living in the white terror can clearly and affectionately feel that they are not alone, thus gaining great encouragement and strength, and also making Shanghai Daily gain higher and higher prestige among the workers. As pointed out in the 17th issue of Red Flag on March 26th, 1930, "Our Shanghai Newspaper has become the only reading material for the working class in Shanghai, and has become an authority among the Shanghai masses, which has made the ruling class in Shanghai tremble with fear for a long time. Although it has suffered the hardest oppression in terms of distribution, it can’t stop the development of our Shanghai Daily. "

△ On July 3, 1929, Hujiang Daily No.1

△ Maritime Daily No.24, July 29, 1929

△ On April 17th, 1930, Shanghai Daily published The First Anniversary of this newspaper and the readers’ future responsibilities.

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Original title: Shanghai Daily, a red periodical studying the world: a newspaper engaged in guerrilla warfare.

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