A Study On The Artists Of Shanghai And Shanghai In Modern Times

As the local drama, Shanghai drama since appears has an inseparable relationship with its supporter — artists. On one hand, Shanghai drama comes into being in modern times which has a special social and cultural environment. To some extent, its appearance solves the artists’ livelihood and its development brings up the artists. On the other hand, the artists promote the appearance and development of Shanghai drama. The two has a mutual connection. Thus, the discussion of the artists’ material and spirit life has become an important approach to understand Shanghai drama’s origination, development, evolution and so on.This thesis is divided into three parts. The firs part gives a basic introduce to the artists of Shanghai drama. It includes the artists’ constitution, entertainment career and their lives. The second part has a discussion on the mutual relationship between Shanghai drama artists and the development of Shanghai drama from the aspects of artists’ professionalization, group feature and vocal genre. The third part mainly analyses the relationship between Shanghai drama artists and modern Shanghai society in terms of the artists’ social network and social activity. The second and the third parts are the center of this thesis. If we talk about artists’ professionalization, we need to discuss the appearance of vocational artists and the evolution of the roles in drama. If we talk about artists’ group feature, we need to have a look from the troupes, their formation and the production of the professional management organizations. If we talk about the vocal genre, we need to describe the different vocal schools. Apart from the relevance in profession, there is some obvious interaction between Shanghai drama artists and then Shanghai society. In terms of the artists themselves, they have own social network. In terms of the constitution of the artists and other organizations, the fight of domination and anti-domination is throughout Shanghai drama artists and the government. However, seen from the contact between the common people and them, they are more accepted by the common people and their social status is gradually improved. Their voluntary public beneficial activities objectively have a great instructive influence on the lower-class people and subjectively improved Shanghai drama artists’ social status and influence.The development of Shanghai drama artists is accompanied by the development of Shanghai drama. The two has mutual relationship and helps to bring about the prosperity of Shanghai drama. They also have an important effect on understanding comprehensively the origination and development of modern Shanghai drama. The appearance of Shanghai drama is related to then social situation. Have a deep understanding of Shanghai drama can discover the change of Shanghai people spirit world.