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Beating On The Pulse Of The Times

Posted on:2006-05-14Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:C Y ZhuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360152481530Subject:Literature and art
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Abstract: Shanghai is the original place of new story. As the folk culture in the society's newperiod, Shanghai new story reflects the real history to a great degree. A number of Shanghai newstory authors write diligently, describing Shanghai's social activities objectively. Of all this, "theking of story", Xia Youmei ,is the typical one.Folk culture can always provide us with the truest social history materials. Xia Youmei'sarticles written in the past forty years are just the true and precious materials to study Shanghai's40-year aesthetic culture .Therefore, I will study the developing history of Shanghai's aestheticculture through Xia Youmei's stories. I also study the story's telling, spreading, and transformation.I will explore different factors of the transformation of Shanghai's aesthetic culture, includingShanghai's 40-year economical development ,foreign culture's shock, the development of scienceand technology, the changes of mass media.Xia Youmei's stories in different period show people's characteristics of life andideology .These articles are the mirror of mass aesthetic culture. We can grasp the psychologicalexperience of mass aesthetics in Shanghai in the past forty years. We can also understand people'spursuing ideal and the changes of their appreciation and intrest.There's deep social life origin behind the story creation. Describing the life and wishes of thelaboring people in the stories, exploring certain social cohesion, studying the coherence between thecontent of stories and the background of age ,those also mean explaining Shanghai people's mentallife and showing mental culture's achievement of Shanghai.
Keywords/Search Tags:aesthetic culture, new story, aesthetic intrest, Shanghai mental culture, transformation of culture
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