Confrontation And Debugging

The 1920s to 1930s Shanghai was in a golden age not only of rapid economic development, but also of unprecedented cultural prosperity. This double prosperity, along with the advancement of the publishing industry, the rising of the urban citizens'class and civic culture and the influence and impetus of the New Culture Movement,paved way for the rising and rapid development of the Shanghai tabloids.In the 1920s and 1930s Shanghai, in addition to the extraordinarily prosperous urban citizens'culture, the elite culture was also experiencing its rapid development. Therefore, the urban citizens'literature and the elite literature both took an extremely important position in the literary discourse at that time, which had greatly influenced the tabloids then. In addition, due to the modern Chinese advocators'overwhelming victory in their famous debate with the Ancient Chinese advocators, the new level and more influential discursive space achieved by the elite literature, along with the elite literature's long criticism of the tabloid literature, great pressures had been imposed on the tabloids that were mainly constituted by members of the School of Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies, which to some extent impelled the transformation of the tabloids later.Based on the above thinking, this article attempts to briefly review the prosperity of the 1920s and 1930s Shanghai tabloids and the causes, and then investigate, from both the discourse of the urban citizens'culture and the discourse of the elite culture, the responses and countermeasures of the tabloids. Therefore, this article outlines three chapters, in which the first chapter discusses the prosperity of the Shanghai tabloids and tabloid literature and the causes; the second chapter discusses, from the discourse of the urban citizens'culture, the prosperity of the tabloid literature, the popular appeal of the tabloids and the urban citizens'cultural psychology of mammonism and plebeianism; the third chapter discusses, from the discourse of the elite culture, the relation between the tabloid literature and the elite literature, which mainly focuses on the tabloid literature's countermeasures and spontaneous choice in the discourse of elite culture.