"Taibai" Magazine And The Mass Movement

Shanghai was an open trading ports in the1930s. The massive popular magazine from other countries attracted the public view. In addition, shanghai implemented commercialized culture mechanism and had developed publishing institutions. All of these had provided the advantageous condition for magazine founded. A trend of founding magazine was set off in shanghai. There were about four hundred magazines in this time. The Taibai magazine that edited by Chen Wangdao in chief was born in this trend. But the Taibai magazine founded was closely linked with the movement of the society at that time. It supported the left-wing cultural movement in distinct political tendentiousness, attacked with Lunyu and Yuzhoufeng, fought with cultural restoring ancient ways, responded the Popular Language Movement that guided by Chen Wangdao.This article will take the Popular Language Movement for the breakthrough point, introduce the column setup and the creation group and select key columns and key writer to deeply research. From these detail research, we can know the efforts that done by Taibai magazine in support of the Popular Language Movement. The writers have a discussion about Popular Language in Taibai magazine, we can find that the writers is trying to find a new form of language that can be accepted by the public. Especially, the article will focus on the science essay column to explore how the science essay combines science and literature, change literature in a popular style and give the essay new forms and contents. The Taibai magazine found a new form to write literature.The Taibai magazine used own practical action to repel the cultural restoring ancient ways, supported the Popular Language Movement and created the Popular Language and the Popular Literature that can be accepted by public. The Taibai magazine was founded by the Popular Language Movement driven directly. It is closely connected with the reality of the society at that time, so it has important historical value and thought value for us to study social reality in the1930s.