The Source Of Magic Power:Geography & Consumption Space Of Shanghai In The 1890’s

In this thesis, written in 1892, Han Bangqing " Flowers in Shanghai " for the mirrors, the story takes place in the late Qing Shanghai concession is that the transition hub geospatial and spending habits for the study, with a reduction strategy this time Shanghai lifestyle and consumer attitudes people carry some deep scan,and then unite in a strange situation because dialysis this consumer revolution possible distortions arising from its due." Flowers in Shanghai " Always leave the four roads surrounding area of Shanghai and brothel ten foreign market inside and outside, all kinds of traders,brokers comprador, gentry, literati, dude, brothels down service personnel, were removed during the riffraff and the Countrymen, etc. face, one by one stripped out and subvert the traditional " Romances " mode. While writing content brothel life,but chief and officialdom, shopping malls, fairs, in love, and more in a variety of colorful " bureau " to compile decorated story, reflecting the end of the century magic are Shanghai ’s downtown scene. Han Bangqing to " plain and close to nature"( Lu Xun language) strokes, vividly depicts 1890 s Shanghai rich and poor,high or low seasons, spending significantly different picture of life can be described as secular scenery Chi scroll. The novel relationships, emotional structure, life background, everyone imprinted with traces of consumption; haunt people here,from top to bottom, from outside to inside, from the rich to the base, everyone becomes materialism, hedonism and money worship infected with Marxism, social stratification and differential pattern thus formed, also led to the proliferation of rampant disease and the dark forces. The traditional rituals and taboos, gradually giving way to a money economy; mercenary, utilitarian and becoming new, fawning attitude ingratiate oneself stylish variation growing, so many, both 20 th century modern hotbed Shanghai unite weird things phases, Prospects China is spending a lot of drawbacks since the reform and opening up.In this paper, the method relies on consumer sociology and cultural studies,the era complemented by the many people who travel, sketches and notes, novels,images and other historical materials, deep plowing through the text and discourse reconstruction, sketched out in the 1890 s Shanghai urban geography icon and consumption space, thus ease the late Qing Shanghai ideology of consumerism in the far-reaching impact on everyday life. It seems time for " Modern Literature" overstepped the subject, but is subject to wear through barriers "classical " and "now / contemporary " between the Chinese language and literature and writing only from its intrinsic cultural perspective, a retrial "Shanghai Literature " modern temperament, the " magic City " Shanghai from where the magic of it to characterize what is, in essence, what, and so on, both the thesis writing primordial motivation,but also awareness of the problem.This paper argues that the source of magic to shape a hundred years of modern Shanghai image from monetary capital possessed by ghosts from the market as a system of universal order, consumer-oriented principle, to entertainment to death for the demands of ideology. It causes breakage traditional, hierarchical space, class differentiation, inequality, the pursuit of fashion, relationship imbalances, emotional alienation, excessive luxury, security control and other adverse consequences,perhaps society in transition, particularly in each of us non alarming harmony factor.