What was the income of journalists in the 192s and 193s?

Cultural people in a broad sense also include journalists and editors of the media. Chongqing morning post is a "Metropolis Daily" newspaper, which lives entirely by advertising and marketing. According to He Fang, the deputy editor-in-chief of the newspaper, the income of media practitioners in China has experienced a change of first rising and then falling in the past 3 years of reform and opening up: "In the 199s, in 22 or 23, it was about seven or eight years. At least in Chongqing, the income of journalists was still relatively high compared with other industries. Take our newspaper for example. In 1997 and 1998, a good reporter in our newspaper earned more than 1, yuan a month. However, after 23, the competition among metropolitan newspapers became very fierce, and newspapers expanded one after another, recruiting a large number of journalists, which led to rising costs and declining profits. At the same time, due to the increase of journalists, the number of people was too small and the competition in the same industry was intensified, so the income of journalists began to decrease. At present, among the four metropolitan newspapers in Chongqing, good journalists can get an average of six or seven thousand dollars a month, and many can get seven or eight thousand dollars, while poor journalists, such as those with low news coverage and few news clues, may earn from several hundred dollars to thousands of dollars a month. As for those journalists who have not completed the basic workload, they can even get no money. "

But I don't know why, even educated people with good income like to call themselves "proletarians".

"In the first half of the 2th century, Shanghai literati were called' Mr. Writing in the Pavilion', and some of them, such as Ba Jin and Jin Yi, were middle class. They could buy their own houses, have their own rickshaw pullers, and eat out on Sundays. In addition, literati in cultural units with more than editors, such as Zhonghua Book Company, Commercial Press and Shenbao, were also middle class. But those "cynics" who have just entered Shanghai are not middle class, and those around Lu Xun, such as Hu Feng, Xiao Hong and Xiao Jun, are not middle class either. Their political radicalization is actually related to their low economic level and the inability to open the situation in Shanghai, a metropolis.

"In fact, some literati, such as Liang Shiqiu and Lin Yutang, who were called' lackeys of capitalists' by Lu Xun, turned to cynicism only because they couldn't reach it. In the past, we always refused to talk about it, but today, we analyze the leftism of China intellectuals in the 192s and 193s from the perspective of economics and sociology, and you can see clearly: Why did their political and ideological radicalization come from? "

however, there are exceptions. Just like there are many conservative poor people and radical rich people in this world, the political inclination of a literate person does not depend entirely on his living conditions. Sometimes, the shocking polarization between the rich and the poor will also make an artist who is well-off, moderate and steady angry.

Zhu Xueqin also admitted that Lu Xun is an obvious exception: Lu Xun's income is definitely the income of the middle class, but Lu Xun has obvious left-wing political tendencies.

Zhang Guangtian also considers himself an exception. "I am a proletarian living a middle-class life," he smiled, showing his smoky teeth. "Around 2, the polarization between the rich and the poor in China was very prominent and serious, which led to the left-wing sentiment among the people. The ernesto guevara I directed only catered to this sentiment."

author's e-mail address: Weicheng _ ft @ yahoo.co.uk

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