Modern Newspapers And Modern Chinese Literature

Chinese modem literature is completely different from the traditional literature inidea,content and form.The causes for its coming into being are complicated,in whichthe influence from overseas and the Chinese social and political reform no doubt playsthe main part. However,the modem press creats a very important basis to form themodem literaure.The modem press provides a media for the combination of the newidea and the new content of the Chinese modem literaure,a new expressionmeans,new practice an rich material and spiritual resources for Chinese literature.Thispaper analyzes the relationaship between the Chinese modem press and modemliterature from the following three aspects.First,modem press provides a media to spread the new idea of. the Chineseliterature.The idea of the modem literature forms through the past literature movementsand argument that are set off in the press.The revolutionary have realized that thesuccess of the idea revolution completely depends on the people.So the participater ofthe modem literature set up a lot of newspapers and periodicals whose popularizationprovides a way for the people to participate in this movement .The proposition of themodem literature is popularized in the society through the publication and distributionof the newspapers and periodicals.To maintain the development of modemliterature,the advocater and participater fight tit for tat against all kinds of oppositepowers.To better encourage the people to take part in it,the advocaters make use of thepress to directly communicate v~ith the people.Through the argument ,they graduallyget rid of the negative influence of the rival power among the people and pushforward the development of literature in the right direction.To counter someambiguous idea inside the revolutionary camp,the revolutionary make use of the pressto discuss and argue extensively such as about "the revolutionary literature" and "therevolutionary literature writer"During this movement and argument,the idea of themodem literature is becoming clear and the modem literature aims at seving "forlife""for society"nd "for revolutionary".Second,the modem press provides new practice for the Chinese modemlitertaure.The press is the main base for the modem literature.The works of modemliterature are mainly published on them.The improvement of the printing technologyresults in the advanced printing and publishing way,which shortens the term of thepublication .The writers can publish their works with low cost and short time,thushelp to bring about the rising of the professional writers.The change of the publicationof the works makes the reading more personal.The writer is no longer telling a storyto the listeners but writing for an individual reader .The narration of the modem worksbecomes plain and focuses on the psychological description.The existing way of thenewspaper and periodicals and public characteristic of the modem literature requirethem to own their consuming group.So the modem literature and the modem presswork together to aim at collecting their own readers.They try great efforts in searchingfor the subject,establish new literature form,write in Baihua to draw the publicattention shorten the distance between the public and modem literature and form areaders group of modem literature.Third, the modem press change the tradional style of the Chinese literature.To meet the demand of the political characteristic of the Chinese literature,thenovel is enhanced to the highest position,which impels the novel to move from thefrontier of the traditional literature to the center.The timely publishing of thenewspapers and periodicals brings forth new idea abd new style for the literature,suchas sarcastic and humourous novel,news novel,informed essay and sketch.Because thelayout of the press is limited,the novel can not be fully published in one issue.Themodem literature establishes the way for t...