Before Hu Shi and others started the periodical Free China in Taipei in 1949,there had been two periodicals with the same title,starting respectively in Wuhan in 1938 and Shanghai in 1945. These three periodicals represented the evolution of "Free China"in different stages. The former,sponsored by leftist intellectuals and the Communist Party of China,advocated sacrificing personal freedom to obtain the national freedom of China,to fight against the Japanese invaders and defend the independence of the nation. When this periodical was resumed in Guilin later,its leftist hue faded slightly. Around the outbreak of the Pacific War,"Free China " gradually became the honorable title granted by the international anti-Fascist Allies to China,which still stuck to the resistance. Thus,when the Shanghai branch of the Nationalist Party resumed public activities in 1945,they started a new periodical titled "Free China "to welcome the leaders and troops of the Chongqing government to return Shanghai. However,it soon turned out that what was brought from Chongqing to Shanghai was not freedom at all. These two periodicals were totally different from the Free China later started in Taipei,which was influenced by the anti-Communist tone of the Cold War and following the"free"world led by the United States.