The New Sensation In China

In the 1930's, Shanghai had turned to a modern Commerce City, become the biggest city in the Far East. The flourishing commerce, new city sights , Western recreations and Western civilization concept in Shanghai formed special social and cultural environment, which made the New Sensation School produce and develop. Facing the changing continuously object, the New Sensation School writers formed complicated mentality-not only yearn for city but also feel puzzled. As the city's symbol, the new female sex in the New Sensation School novels duplicated the double mentality.In 1927, cinema arose in Shanghai and became the fashionable amusement arena. The New Sensation School writers asked for reference actively to many film arts such as Montage, camera lens movement, and sense of sight and hearing, which influenced their novel's style and brought great change to the works' structure and form. Although the New Sensation School didn't publish any clear-cut group declaration, we can know their literature concept: be acutely sensitive to what is new, uphold literature's own value, cater to new residents' interest and so on.Based on reference to many western Modernism factions such as the symbolism, the consciousness stream, and the expressionism .the New Sensation School became Dual-style Modernism. At the same time, the New Sensation School transformed the western Modernism during transplant, which produced some important difference from the western Modernism.