The "Shanghai-Writing" Of Immigrant Writers In 20^th Century

The city of Shanghai has special status and significance in modern China.From the the first step China took into modern society, almost every significant affairs happened in modern China do matter with Shanghai. For that reason, omniform Shanghai came into view.This article choose the group of immigrant writers from a multitude of the"Shanghai-Writing".In a way immigrants play an important role in the process of developing Shanghai. They spread their power all over the city.For writers whom have background of immigration, the city of Shanghai seems at once familiar and strange. A group of those people which be called"flaneur"are sufficiently capacity to read that city. Immigrant writers in different historical periods had shown us features of Shanghai in different stages.This article follows historical development and contents with inner relationships. There are four chapters in"". Every chapter was divided into three parts with one of the leading writers and his/her works.Chapter 1: This article puts period around 1892-1917 as the first stage that Shanghai had start with modern development. Han Bangqing's Shanghai Flowers is took as a start of 20th"Shanghai Writing", it shows the real situation of western civilization in early-modern Shanghai. Fool's Shanghai travel note, which was published 20 years later than Shanghai Flowers by Gong Shaoqin, told us Shanghai citizens had been quite familiar with western civilization, especially modern material civilization. In Lu Shie's New China ,we found proof of influence made by western idea.Chapter 2: Centering on 1920-1930 Shanghai, The New-Sense described Shanghai as a modern fashion metropolis with a kaleidoscope of strange sights and impressions. Zhang Ailing's writings often focuses on common life in Shanghai. And her writings are shown stories about life of ordinary people. Those opened up an image of Shanghai with appeal that combined with traditional and modern. Meantime, Xuxu gives a picture of real lifeway in Shanghai from his writings. Also, he created a new writing model of Revolution-Love Novels which was showing the features of Shanghai in 1938-1942.Chapter 3: Focusing on the background of revolution and politics of Shanghai, this chapter emphasizes the revolutionary power bubbled up in capitalist city of Shanghai combined the prosperousness of leftist writings. The leftist writings depicts Shanghai as a hell which is full of the poor inside and appearance of paradise outside. The leftist writers hold firm that Shanghai as a exception of evil could reach the new life necessarily. The article'Morning in Shanghai'narrates the story about the process smooth over the evil of capitalism in Shanghai. After that, Shanghai plays an important role in socialism building as an industry city, especially in steel industry.Chapter 4: Last part is surrounding transition period of urban development. Yu Tianbai's series novels called Great Shanghai expounded the coming difficulties during that transition period. Reconstruction and reinstatement are no doubt became the general consensus. With nostalgia has returned, people want to restore the prestige of Shanghai as the old times in 1930s or 1940s. In'Everlasting sorrow'written by Wang Anyi, a story about legend life of a Shanghai woman coincide with the history of Shanghai. Literary creations in that period often contain the unique elegance in 1930s/1940s and hardship from real life.