Middle-class Culture And Female Writing In Anti-Japanese Wartime Shanghai

In the perspective of a middle-class culture, this paper introduced the resources of cultural history and historical sociology to re-historilizate and politicalizate wartime female writing in Shanghai.1937-1945, under the shadow of the Anti-Japanese War, Shanghai’s material and cultural life had developed greatly, which laid the material basis for middle-class cultural space’s reserved and everbright. It also created an opportunity for women writers such as Eileen Chang, Yang Jiang, Su Qing to take over the existing culture, press vacancy and mechanisms, leading them to take major roles on the middle class cultural stage.The paper mainly in three aspects:" middle class’s professional life"、"material expression"、"family and marriage".On the one hand, by mining the relationship between the personal career of these middle-class women writers, literary and artistic creation and middle-class culture.This paper shows middle-class cultural connotation of the special historical period, on the other hand as a socio-historical and cultural context of the writing background incorporated into women writing, we can open the external space of the literary texts to re-dig its literary/cultural values.