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Based on the comprehensive collation of original data, the present thesis, takingthe colonial context as its background, makes a study of popular fictions in theJapanese occupied period of the Northeast from perspectives of text, carrier and theconstruction of theoretical criticism in the hope of presenting the overall and actualsituation of popular fictions at that period and recognizing the significance and literarymission of popular fictions to literature of the occupied period. It will enrich theresearch content of literature in the occupied period by changing the research methodsand isolated patterns of " binary opposition" and "mutual authentication".There are six chapters in the present thesis. Based on an analysis of formerresearch results, the introduction part demonstrates the reason and significance ofchoosing the present topic. The first chapter shows the development process of theNortheast popular fictions by studying the development history of modern Chinesepopular fictions, from the gradual evolution in Late Ming Dynasty and Early QingDynasty to modern transformation in Late Qing Dynasty,and to the 1920s when themodern popular novels took shape.It probes the heterogeneity in the development ofnovels in marginal regions. The second chapter makes specific research on the growthcontext and development characteristics of popular fictions in the occpupied period,based on macro understanding of the development process of popular fictions. Amongthem, the colonial context is an important feature that can not be ignored. In theprocess of adjusting to the external environment, popular fictions in the period ofJapanese occupation present different development stages. Chapter three studies thecarriers of the popular fictions. Popular fictions in the Northeast have different carriers with different features in different periods of time. At the same time, due to the weaklink in book publication at the region, newspapers and periodicals play a prominentrole at that time. The present thesis makes a texual research of the feature of popularfictions with different carriers by making a summary and generalization of thenewspaper supplement and periodicals. In addition, due to the close relationshipbetween tabloids and popular fictions, the Northeast tabloids are also the focus of studyfor this chapter. The fourth chapter is an investigation into the writers of popularfictions. For a long period of time, ignoring popular fictions has made their writers in astealthy position. This chapter, by studying the identity and feature of popular fictionwriters, summarizes several writer groups: popular fiction writer groups in the 1920s;popular fiction writer groups in the 1930s and 1940s; female writers; writer groups inthe North China; Japanese, Russian and Korean writer groups. Because of theirdifferent educational backgrounds, life experiences and political beliefs, they possessdifferent literature temperament and creative mindset. Therefore, their works showdifferent features.The fifth chapter is an analysis of main types of popular novels:social sentimental novels, historical fictions, martial arts novels, detective novels andnovels of secret forest words. Contents of these types of novels present differentcharacteristics from those of the novels before the occupied period: social novelsinclude novel and humorous novels; historical novels take in wild anecdote novels andnovels with historical theme; bandit novels appear in martial arts novels and there evenare images of some female bandits; affected by Japanese detective novels and thepolitical situation, logical reasoning novels, news event novels and spy novels becomepart of detective novels; one of the most notable feature of the Northeast literary worldis that there appears a new genre -- novels of secret forest words. The emergence ofthis kind of novels is influenced by many factors and shows unique aesthetic value andsignificance of literary history. The sixth chapter is an analysis of literary criticism ofthe popular novels. Based on an analysis of the theoretical development of modernpopular fictions in the Northeast, the thesis summarizes the characteristics oftheoretical construction for popular fictions in the occupied period and analyzes theepoch-making works in this field, The Study of How to Write Novels, which summarizes issues of novel writing such as theme, form, structure, nature, performance,viewpoint, character, environment, and the article form etc.