Shanghai Urban Culture And The Shanghai Women Writers Writing

From 1843, Shanghai began to form its special metropolis culture language situation. About at 1920s, the female writers are Shanghai continuously creating novels of Shanghai society. This process never stops.When we research the relationship between Shanghai female writers and the Shanghai metropolis, we found that Shanghai provides a very special metropolis culture circumstances to the writers. They are greatly changed by the culture circumstances on the fields of both life and writing. Meanwhile, the writers also effect and reform the Shanghai culture circumstances by their writing of self and the other, Shanghai and other cities in China.As these writers cover the history from 1920s till now, it's hard to pay attention to every female wrier in Shanghai. I choose six groups of female writers in Shanghai. Chenying and Shi Jimei wrote in 1920s‐1930s. They paid attention to"the new female"who were faced with the huge metropolis and showed great courage; Suqing's work is just like a copy of her own life. In her writing, she showed us a kind of women who undertake the publish career as men, at the same time, these women also enjoy their urban life bravely. Zhang Ailing is maybe the most famous female writer. She showed her interest of listening to the sound of the city and the common life. She seized the details of urban life and tell the readers what is real the sprite of the city. Almost after a half century, Wang Anyi connected the history of female writers'Shanghai writing. She pays attention to the ordinary people in Shanghai and she tries to find the details of daily life again just like what Zhang Ailing did. In her works, we found that the tradition of urban life is connected by her works. In Chen Danyan's wokrs, we found a new key word, reminiscence. She enjoys this kind of writing and she tries to recall the delicacy of urban life by her writing. The last group of female writers were born in 1970s. They are called"after 1970s". Their hometown is not Shanghai, but they enjoy the life in Shanghai. So they entered the huge city and seek their dreams here. They also show their life in the novels and want to make it as a part of their life.My dissertation researches the works of these female writers. I hope that during the process of research I can find the overall character of these writers. And I also hope I can find the locus of the development of Shanghai city sprite. There is a relationship between the Shanghai sprite and female writers'work. That the point of my dissertation.Now, the globalization becomes the theme of the times. In the circumstances, it's the time to think the relationship between city and the writing. I think literature is the important part of city life and city sprite. The research of Shanghai female writing can help us to understand the city better and the history more deeply. Only by this way ,we can totally understand Shanghai culture.