The Research On Li Bai Liu Following100Journal

Saturday is a leisurely and literary magazine with profound effect. It is also therepresentative of the modern literary journals of the citizen. It appears and becomes populartwice during the May4^th period and arises the citizens’ creation of literary journals. It isfounded on June6,1914and stops publishing on April29,1916with totally100periodicals.Five years later brings its resume publication, from March19,1921to February10,1923. Itends up with200periodicals. The magazine is published by Zhonghua Book Company whichis located in Shanghai. The former100periodicals are called “The Previous100Journal”Saturday and the latter ones are named “The Following100Journal” Saturday.It is a transitional period of China’s modern society when “The Following100Journal”is issued. At that time, the May4^th Movement is growing vigorously. China has entered into astage of modern literature. As a representative of popular literary journals, Saturday is quitedifferent from the new literary writers’ purport. Love Bird and Butterfly School and SaturdaySchool are strongly criticized by the new literary writers. Saturday is regarded as a synonymof the literature countercurrent for quite some time. Until the1980s, researchers began tore-examine it and its entire school.This paper mainly analyzes “The Following100Journal” Saturday from four aspects.First, the author introduces the history of the magazine. The inspection focuses on its culturalenvironment during the resume publication period and its opposition to the literaryenvironment to realize its survival and development. Second, the author states the creatorsrepresented by Wang Dungen and Zhou Shoujuan. They help the magazine to create greaterglories when new literature is the dominant discourse. The third part presents the contents andfeatures of the magazine. Compared with the previous100, the language transforms fromclassical to vernacular. It has a wide selection of columns. Based on the previous one,“TheFollowing100Journal” explores a large number of columns that are suitable for thecustomers to read quickly. It further deepens the leisurely sense of the magazine. Influencedby the May4^th New Culture Movement and baptized by the western civilization, cultural andspiritual form of the public presents a new look. The magazine adjusts itself both in contentand literary style to adapt to people’s reading expectation in the new era. Chapter four discusses the significance and historical limitations of the magazine. Absence of elite scholarsmakes it use people’s everyday life as the main content, which is different from thepresentation of the orthodox literature on social ideology. It provides prominent materials toinvestigate literary style of the public after May4^th Movement. The various columns are ableto attract readers’ attention. Moreover, it is close to public life and prevalent among theaddressees. On this part, it could provide modern newspaper editors with some references.However, under the influence of internal and external factors, the magazine ultimately comesto an end in the torrent of the new era. The magazine itself has a certain historical limitationexcept that the new literature has become the mainstream of the times. The writers, who stillhold the traditional literati mentality, make their works difficult to follow the footsteps of thetimes to reflect the social trends. What’s more, they don’t have their own theoretical system. Itis not easy for them to give a strong feedback when criticized by the new literary writers. Themagazine has too much entertainment. It is eventually eliminated by the times as a result thatthe writers could not update their knowledge in time to break their intrinsic concept in theprocess of the literary revolution.