“饥饿”的政治——关于1948年国民大会退让名额风波

The Expression and Significance of Interaction behind of Concession of Quota Happened in National Assembly of 1948

1948年国民大会召开前夕,国民政府强迫通过签署方式当选为代表的国民党党员退让名额,导致了10名落选者采取绝食行动。与此同时,此次绝食事件被刻意引入媒体的视域,引起了报刊对此事的报道和讨论。一部分媒体将"目光"聚焦于绝食者的身体,渲染他们的病情,使其行为具有了表演性;另一部分媒体则对绝食者的"绝食"行为进行不同的评价和判断。媒体对身体状态的关注,以及对此事的不同态度,反映了身体与政治的关系在不同身体观中的差异。由此,身体、政治与媒体形成了颇具张力的三种博弈性的力量。

Before the National Assembly convening, the National Government enforced the members of Kuomintang by popularly elected delegates to give up quotas. It made ten popularly elected delegates take hunger strike. This event was introduced into the media vision leading to some reports and comments of newspapers and magazines. Some magazines and newspapers made some exaggerated reports about the starvers＇ illness which made their hunger strike some performativity. The others made different evaluations and judgments about their behaviors of hunger. The media＇s close attention to the state of the body and different attitudes about hunger strike reflected the difference of the relationship between body and politics in different body views. Body, media and politics became three kinds of powers.