이봉창 의거에 대한 중국신문의 보도

Reports about the Patriotic Deed of Lee Bong Chang in the Chinese Papers

I studied reports and articles about the patriotic deed of Lee Bong Chang in the Chinese papers. Lee Bong Chang threw a bomb to the Japanese Emperor in Tokyo, 8 January 1932. The Chinese press dealt it with a big news. The press explained the news in detail and analyzed an given affection to China and Japan by the event. The press also published the news of a death penalty of Martyr Lee Bong Chang. The Chinese press has a fixed tone of argument. First, the press missed that Lee Bong Chang did not kill the Japanese Emperor. Second, the press described Lee as ‘Martyr’ and his snipe as ‘the patriotic deed’. However, the Chinese press suffered from the Japanese. The Japanese protested about the Chinese paper’s reports and articles because of their thought the paper made a hostility to their Emperor. They attacked the Chinese press and fired the building of Kuomintang. What was worse, the Japanese navy invaded Shanghai (Shanghai incident). By Manbosan accident of July 1931, both the Chinese and the Korean pitted against each other. But the Chinese paper made a good relationship between them. And the paper’s report became the motive that Chinese government helps a Korean independence movement.