《良友》画报以他者视角进行了陪都建构与关于重庆的城市想象。重庆大轰炸在报道中并非重点,而是基于议程设置的策略性叙事。由于大轰炸与重庆风景并存,产生了看似割裂的“两个重庆”。但对上海“孤岛”读者来说,二者并不矛盾,风景的重庆与轰炸的重庆分别在雅克?德里达所言的“面甲”背后,传递着趋同的指令,即大轰炸无损于重庆的陪都地位,更无法影响坚持抗战的大政方针。以“孤岛”民众为代表的读者所要做的,就是服膺于“面甲”背后传递的价值观,即对抗战应具有高度信心,更要认同重庆国民政府的抗战部署与必胜的物质和精神资源。这样的导向既是部分抗日报刊的共性,更是《良友》画报作为“孤岛”抗日报刊的特殊视角所致。
The Young Companion was engaged in the mental construction of the provisional capital and envisioned the urban Chongqing from the perspective of a third party. The Chongqing bombing was not the focus of the report, or rather the report was a strategic narrative based on the setting of the agenda. Due to the coexistence of the big bombing and the Chongqing landscape, "two Chongqings" appeared to be separated from each other. However, to the readers of Shanghai as an "Isolated Islet", the two were not contradictory. The scenic Chongqing and the bombed Chongqing were behind the "visor effect" mentioned by Jacques Derrida, and they both conveyed similar implications, i.e., the big bombing would not affect Chongqing's status as the provisional capital nor could it have any impact on the overall situation of the Chinese People's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. What the readers, represented by the "Isolated Islet" people, had to do was to follow the values conveyed behind the "visor effect", i.e., absolute confidence in the victory of the war of resistance, and more importantly, they must approve of the deployment of the Chongqing National Government for material and spiritual resources to ensure winning the war of resistance. This orientation was not only the commonality of some anti-Japanese newspapers and periodicals, but also the result of the special perspective of The Young Companion as one of the "Isolated Islet" anti-Japanese newspapers and periodicals.