The Changing Style Of Reportage In A Hundred Years

This thesis focuses on the changing style of reportage from the end of 19th century to the end of 20th century in China, which is divided into five chapters.The first chapter is an introduction, which elaborate the methodology of the research and the visual angle of the thesis. Fully affirming Chinese Reportage with social and historical criticism as a dominant tendency, at the same time, it also points out its existent latent crisis. It tries hard to study the style with a basic frame and establish a compatible narrator including narrative study, cultural study and propagative study, so as to describe the changing of Chinese Reportage in a hundred years and combine the form criticism to value criticism, and show the new dimension degree and the new vision of reportage research.. And within style study, it nomalize the style of reportage as nonfictitiousness, cultural criticism and cross-style.The second chapter mainly makes a review of the tendency, feature and keynote of the style from the most direct surface which embodies the language body. Though the changing often shows uncertainty, it facilitate the distinct and clear standard of reportage eventually. The language style tends to move towards outside narrating type and be mutual compatible with others. The type of writing still appears solemn and gorgeous besides realist and concise.The third chapter mainly discusses the movement of the textual structure of reportage from its essential factors such as narrating time, narrating visual angle, narrating structure, the narrator and the statements, which forms a narrating pattern to embody a tendency from monism to pluralism, from the narrativeness to non-narrativeness.The fourth chapter is determined to investigate the cultural contexts which are made up of ideology and spirit. The seeking to modernism embodies between enlightenment and saving the nation from extinction. From left ideology and national ideology transition to multivariate or multi-layer ideology is a clear proof of changes of the Chinese Reportage style.The last chapter reveals the influence on the style because of the identity and the growth and decline of the Chinese Reportage, as well as the changes of medium has an impact on the reportage from the straight and nagative surface. The former centralizes "what to write" (stick to the standard style), "how to write" (the innovation experiment of narration); the latter describe the difficulties that printing medium and the visual medium bring impacts on.