Ms Zhang Ailing's Novel Writing A Perspective From The Influence Of Modern Newspapers Upon Literary Creation

The three co-existent components of modern literature, writers, media, and readers, are interacting with each other. As a new thing, media will surely bring about new changes. Influenced by media, writers are bound to take readers' needs into consideration;conversely, the media is actively searching for the representative, namely, writers, of our daily life, in order to satisfy the readers' requirement. To position Ms Zhang Ailing in the context of modern mass media, to further study her novels from the perspective of the influence of the modern media upon the literary creation are valuable. This is because Ms Zhang was so closely related to newspapers that she, a freelance writer, aiming at those magazine readers in the street, could depict that special period of the society from an angle of city dwellers.Ms Zhang's professional literary creation style echoed the need of literature market, intimately dependent upon the modern newspapers, to answer the calls from the mass readers. Her perspective, narration mode, language style, and the volume of novels were all with prominent characteristics. The novels are reader-friendly, taste-tailored, and reader-oriented. What's more, with the dependence on modern newspapers, her literary works were quickly spread. The elegance under the cover of being mediocre transcended the common appreciation of the general public by profoundly-cultivated and wisely-conceived ideological connotation. This trait both embodied the warm welcome from the general public and attracted the attention from professional critics in the literature circle.Her works being considered in a context of modern newspapers, she has contributed uniquely and unprecedentedly to the modern Chinese literature for the fact that she described and narrated the urban life of modern China in a way of combining classicality and modernity, and by negotiating elegance with the commonness.