| Periodicals makes up of the entire cultural & ecological circumstances with their historical context,regional culture,leagues and genres.They has been togetherly developed in the mutual actions. Substantially,the modernization of the Chinese literature is the modernization of the literary styles on the necessary premise of the modernization of the media.In advantage of its brightness ,clarity and amiability,periodicals has broken the monopoly of the books and linked each phases in the literary production into a fine cultural & ecological conditions among which they influence and promote each other efficiently.The every path that the Chinese modern literature explored connected tightly with the literary periodicals.In the history of the Chinese modern literature, The Grass Grown In Desert Weekly is important for its literary choice in the process of the collision of Chinese and Western culture,influence to the development of the later Peking Groups and literature.For instance,its adovocation of the pure literature,opposition to the combination of literature and politics,the pursuit of the individual freedom,and the persist of the stand of the Essence etc. Based on The Grass Grown In Desert Weekly , this article will round its cultural & ecological environment and review of the effort that the groups in The Grass Grown In Desert Weekly made in search of the third path to the development of Chinese modern literature by its literary stand,theories in running periodicals ,editors etc,in order to detect the function that periodicals exerted in literature's promulgation.Peking's rich collection in tradition,unique regional culture and its special desert-like environment in culture & ecology in 1930 producted The Grass Grown In Desert Weekly,and formed a group of intellectuals aroud Zhou Zuoren besides the "Left" and "Right".While inheriting the traditions of democracy and science passed down by "The May Fifth",they tried to rehabilitate the interrupt with Chinese literature's traditions. The Grass Grown In Desert Weekly succeeded the free spirit from Yu Si,but they were different in promulgating purpose, contents and the inner accord.It didn't intervene the society,emphasizing the pure literature.It also opposed to the standardlization and modelization,focusing on the expression of individual feelings.Placidity,harmony and constraint are its classic aesthetic style,and in publication it aimed at meeting partly people.Zhou Zuoren and other principle editors' thinking and writing influenced the periodical deeply in their point,including the insist on the freedom of literature and exclusive from politics and commerce,which led the direction to later Peking Groups and Chinese modern literature. |