The Earlier Concessions Bel-esprit In Modern Shanghai

This essay focuses on the process and twinge of the professional transmission of Concessions Bel-esprit in Modern Shanghai between the conflict of traditional and modern factors in earlier period, in search of the effect on those coming later exerted by the temperament and living situation of those earlier ones. In a way of incorporating points into planes, the essay surveys the anthologies and paper material of those authors comprehensively. The former part mostly depicts the developing process of Concessions Bel-esprit from Concessions Bel-esprit of London Missionary Society Mission Press to Professional Journalists and Authors; the latter part selects the example of Chinese translators of London Missionary Society Mission Press as an individual case for researching. The author of this essay is conceived that earlier Concessions Bel-esprit in modern Shanghai are a group of transmissioners for Chinese traditional literary men in a search of a new professional position in the enterprise of press. There turned out to be a cultural tendency with both traditional and modern characteristics because of the conflict between the intense social mood, literarily aesthetic spirit and artistic hedonism of those traditional men of letter and the requirements of the new profession.