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A Study Of The Shanghai Tabloid During Late Qing Dynasty And The Republic Of China

Posted on:2005-04-21Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:N LiFull Text:PDF
GTID:1115360122486133Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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This dissertation, for the first time wholly and systematically, makes a comprehensive study of the tabloid, which consists mainly of citizen's literature, based on more than seventy important tabloid of Shanghai. The main aim is to deepen the study of Yuanhu literature and Haipai literature, and make clear the relationship between Yuanhu and Haipai, and their differences, and understand their function for the modern citizen of China. The study will be incomprehensive to exclude the tabloid that keeps more contact with the real history, if we want to grasp the clue of the history development of Shanghai citizen's society. This dissertation also discuses the experiences and problems concerning the study of modern newspapers, and promotes the dynamic study method of interfunction highlight the internal-layout and intertexture between tabloids which differs from the reading of pure literature works.The whole paper is divided into four parts. The first part indicates that tabloid is a kind of newspaper that centers on entertainment, and owns a lot of citizen readers. It undergoes a course of slowly modern development of earlier Yuanhu literature, later coexistence of ordinary Haipai literature, and finally becomes media of citizen. The development of tabloid synchronizes with that of Chinese modern cities, especially Shanghai city, and with the shaping of modern citizen literature. From 1897 to 1952, its development is divided into four periods: emerging, shaping, evolving, and descending. Because the tabloid is controlled by society, when it was born, its economic burden is very heavy, and its fringe position also brings great pressure, and then its policy for existence is directed to the lower citizen as the major readers, revises the shortcomings of the major papers, insisting on a policy of "simplicity" and "smallness", combining sex with literature, and showing such features as entertainment, ordinariness andpopularity.The second part is a study of the special group of people among Chinese modern intellectuals: the literati of the tabloid. This group of intellectuals refers to those who, at the position of ordinary people, have citizen literary spirit and deeply are involved in the operation of minor papers. It consists roughly of late Qing dynastic literati, Yuanhu literati and the later part of Haipai literati. The first kind of literati still has the air of great master, and the second apt to benefits, who has changed their viewpoint from society to individual life and really enters into the citizen's life; the third is the transformer and the practitioner of the ordinary literature, which forms the late stage of Haipai literature. They all compose the "Yangchang Literati", which is a gap in modern literature. The character of the minor literati is: the distance from the main trend and the coexistence of the modern, the new and the old; the behavior of the unconventional literati; the cynic of aesthetic manner. According to the different viewpoints of the minor literati's inspecting new literature, they can explain their spiritual space of themselves. They do not like the Left wing that share a bitter hatred for an enemy or close to the Haipai casually as people's thought. They weigh the literature field by the combination of the new and old literature and the standard, and find out the literary manner and commercial habits, tradition and modern, external moral standard and internal citizen habits on those minor paper literati, and how this character produce a spiritual "oddness" by strange manner.The third part studies the relationship of Shanghai and Shanghai minor papers. The literary context of the tabloid decides the difference between city and major papers, magazines and new literature works. The tabloid is the "citizen public field" of modern Shanghai, and the city space of the low part of the citizen. From the development of the minor papers, it gradually abandons the highposition, and gets close to the ordinary literature. The content and layout of the papers show plainness, and...
Keywords/Search Tags:Shanghai tabloid, citizen's social culture, Yangchang literati, popularized public space, pop literature
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