반공의 로컬과 동아시아 지역냉전 - 대만 반공르포 <여비간>과 남한 반공극 <여당원>

Abstract

This article attempted to re-read the anti-communist propaganda as a text of the Cold War psychological warfare, focusing on the anti-communist reportage ‘The Woman Thief(女匪幹)’(1950) in Taiwan and the anti-communist drama ‘The Woman Communist(女黨員)’(1952) in South Korea. The anti-communist drama ‘The Woman Communist’ was performed twice in Daegu, the refuge of the Korean War in 1952, and at the National Theater in 1961. ‘The Woman Communist’ is an adaptation of the Taiwanese anti-communist reportage ‘The Woman Thief’. This work is a reportage that attempts to accuse the evil actions of Communist Party and facts through the true story of a young and smart female college student, Luo Yifen(羅挹芬), in the background of China’s mainland in 1949 when the Soviet Revolution broke out in China. Author Cheng Tie-wu(成鐵吾) wrote this book to assert anti-communism, criticizing the books of Fan Chang-jiang(范長江), Edgar Snow, and Agnes Smedley, who reported that the leaders of the Communist Party of the Chinese Revolution were legendary heroes. Cheng Tie-wu’s ‘The Woman Thief’ was very popular in Taiwan, and this work was made into the national film ‘Wake up from a Nightmare(惡夢初醒)’(in Mandarin, 1951), Taiwan Gezai Opera ‘The Woman Thief’(in local language, 1951), and Taiwan glove puppet theater Potehi ‘The Woman Thief’(in local language, 1951). And it was aggressively exploited for the propaganda of the Nationalist Party in Taiwan. In addition, this work was premiered at the refugee site during the Korean War at the request of the Ministry of Education, a South Korean Cold War censorship organization, as an adaptation of Seo Hang-seok(徐恒錫), and re-performed in 1961. 1952 and 1961 were the period immediately after the Korean War and the 5.16 military coup. Taiwanese anti-communist reportage, Gezai Opera, and anti- communist drama ‘The Woman Thief’ and ‘The Woman Communist’ target different languages, different media, and different audiences. In this article, I compared and analyzed these three works to examine specific aspects of psychological warfare texts used in the Cold War in East Asia during the 1949 Chinese War and the 1950 Korean War.