香港《立報》主導權問題重探$.

Established in Shanghai in 1935, the newspaper, Lih Pao (LP) attracted a huge number of readers with its compressed and popular editorial strategy. The LP broke the record for the highest circulation rates since the appearance of daily posts in China. One major founder of the newspaper, Cheng Shewo (1898–1991), was a renowned journalist and journalism educator. He launched newspapers and vocational schools in journalism in different places. He also participated in politics. In 1937, when Shanghai fell into the hands of the Japanese, publication of LP was suspended. It was resumed on 1 April 1938 in Hong Kong. In the founding manifesto, the Hong Kong Lih Pao (HKLP) promised to inherit the spirit of the LP of Shanghai, and retain the layout structure of its Shanghai predecessor. However, there have been different perspectives on the relation between Cheng Shewo and HKLP. The issuer of the HKLP and a former senior staff of the LP, Sa Kongliao, recalled that it was he who established the HKLP with financial support from the Chinese Communist Party, while Cheng Shewo’s recollection gives no hints of it. Some even said that there were other sources of funds. As a matter of fact, there were also very different understandings of who was the real person in charge of the HKLP, especially concerning the direction of the supplements. A close study of the content and later research of the HKLP reveals that there were struggles among different camps for the control of the HKLP. Through analysing the relaunching of LP in Hong Kong and the different remarks on its core members by later researchers, this paper tries to recompose the actuality of the HKLP, and to trace out the alterations and modifications of the past by different antagonistic forces. This study also disputes the common discourse on the production mechanism of Hong Kong literature during the Anti-Japanese War period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]