Urban Daily Life In Beijing And Shanghai, "legend"

This theme that begins from cultural angle of sight is concentrated on two typical cases of urban cultural writings, in order to approach such canonical expression writings in Modem Chinese Literature. Further more, it also discusses how urban culture upgrades the value of urban literature. Urban cultural modality and civic cultural mind appeared in the " patria China" are great historic changes, which expresses in Shanghai & Beijing most typically. These two cities respectively were the most typical reading copy of the age-old cities & the modern cities . Lao She & Zhang Ai ting focused literary aesthetic object on the mundane common lives & incarnated urban cultures of Beijing & Shanghai. They separately locked in two faces with the most typicality and peculiarity of modern Chinese urban culture, so they became the prolocutors of urban culture with supreme qualification about Beijing & Shanghai. As typical urban culture writers, they first realized self-consciousness with urban cultural angle of sight in the development of Chinese modern urban literature. They revealed urban mundane common life entirely, while fully digging the best of representatives about urban living culture and civic cultural mind in modern Chinese urban modernization. All of their effort upgraded both cultural and artistic tenor of urban literature.This dissertate argues in four aspects. Firstly, "mammonists' cities". The writers began with urban economic particularity. In this most basic potency, they got cultural privity with their own cities, from here, Lao She & Zhang Ai ling used different scale & words to reveal different cultural significance of mammonists'cities. Secondly, "cultural cities". The writers correctly revealed the soul of urban culture & the view of cultural value, which were the firm basis for them to be the prolocutors of urban culture. Lao She & Zhang Ai ling did their best to grasp urban cultural value from urban common lives. They not only told us the deep difference in cultural purusa between Beijing & Shanghai, but also told us the 'present' situation, the history & future of the urban culture. All of these exceeded generic urban description. It shows their peculiar value in urban cultural writing. Further more," living city". The writers scanned survival crisis while choosing different words & standpoints to see their own cities. By thinking about society-history or humanity- life, they upgraded those petite narratives about urban common lives. This also bring the different apocalypse of living description, supply the reference to modern culture and thought enlightenment. At last, "legendary city". The writers found the legendary character in urban culture, so they used " mundane legend" art form to represent urban culture, showed the eccentricity from the normality. By such form, Lao She & Zhang Ai ling dug out the real marvel that concussed the readers' heart more strongly. It means they explored another aesthetic value successfully in urban legend, which had much deeper cultural significance but also upgraded artistic grade of urban cultural writing.