Tabloid(Xiaobao) And Young Revolutionary Literati In The 1930s' Peiping(Beijing)

This paper aims at studying the activities of young revolutionary literati in the 1930s'Peiping(Beijing). Two reasons led the author into this research. The first is that scholars pay much more attention to Shanghai than other areas when talking about the Movement of Left-wing Literature, and the second is that when studying literary history of 1930s'Peiping scholars pay less attention to other literati groups than the literati group of Jingpai School(京派) who lived and worked in the colleges. My study focuses on different urban spaces of Peiping where young revolutionary literati lived and held their literary activities. In this paper, urban spaces refer to material urban spaces and cultural urban spaces. The former includes guild halls (huiguan会馆), hotels (gongyu公寓) and campus of middle school ,while the latter refers to publishing products, such as literary journals, supplements of newspaper. Tabloid(xiaobao小报) belongs to such cultural urban spaces. It is well known that tabloid had a bad fame, but as studied in chapter one and two, in the Movement of Popularization(dazhonghua大众化运动) , tabloid got a good reputation, especially in Peiping, and became one of most important cultural spaces for young revolutionary literati, where they published their works and even united into literary societies. Those societies are also examined in detail in this paper, because it was through these societies, little or big, that young literati joined the Movement of Left-wing Literature. In the third and forth chapters, Bubble Society (paomoshe泡沫社)is studied detailedly, whose most members were also main authors of supplement of tabloid titled Juejin Daily(《觉今日报·文艺地带》).This literary society was made up of wandering youth(liulang qingnian流浪青年) and middle-school students. By studying the wandering youth who lived in guild halls and middle-school students who lived on campus, this paper shows in those urban spaces mentioned above how revolutionary literature rose and developed, and how those revolutionary youth in Peiping held their literary activities.