Literary Study On "Modern Times"

"Modern Times" was founded by Shi Zhecun, chief editor of the literature periodical, it got its historical meaning as the position of literary free contestation and the literature of modern school. Although there are many comments on it, it is rarely studied as the text of a periodical, this paper attempts to get some revelation by studying the periodical.This thesis can be divided into 3 parts: The first part stresses on the analysis for the cultural ecological environment in which " Modern Times "was deeply rooted. Here, there are 3 essential factors: Shanghai, modern and world, they are studied from 3 aspects: region, time and cultural exchange, and hope to get historical literature meaning through the analysis for cultural context. In the second part, the paper carries out its text study and surveys its literary idea, this idea is liberalism in literary aesthetics, cosmopolitism in culture intercommunion and readership-oriented standard in transmission strategy. The third part puts forth effort to discuss the historical cultural meaning of " modern times", that is the modern meaning and the outstanding modernity feature. In the third part, the paper also makes preliminary discussion on" Modern Times "from the commerciality, city trend and the relationship between literature and politics."Modern Times " holds the compatible opening editing literary idea and aesthetics idea, it holds its cultural identity ground in intense commercial competition, and holds much important hints for the literature periodical of consumptive context in China.