“亡国恨”与“后庭花”——战时语境下“何日君再来”的浮沉

The Tragedy of a Lost Regime and The Backyard Flowers:The Variety of “When Will You Return” in Wartime

诞生于战时上海的歌曲"何日君再来"作为影片《三星伴月》的插曲由周璇演唱后盛行沪上,并成为因日军政治高压而言论空间受限、空气沉闷的"孤岛"中人们苦闷情绪的调节剂。同时,该曲也被改换歌词借以宣传抗战或被赋以租界中无法直接表达之抗日思想,最终遭遇国民政府的禁令。但屡禁不止则显示政治试图控制文艺的徒劳。

When Will You Return sung by Zhou Xuan as an episode to the film Stars Moving Around The Moon became widely popular in wartime of Shanghai and it played an important part in dispelling people＇ s depression in The Islet where it had no freedom of speech because of the political highhandedness from Japan. At the same time, the lyrics were changed and endowed with a thinking of the resistance to Japan, which could not be expressed directly in the concession. The Kuomin Government announced a ban against singing the song. While the failing of the prohibition means that it is futile to try to control literature and art.