The Relationship Between The Illustrated Novel Magazine And The May 4th New Cultural

As one of the most significant magazines set up by Bao Tianxiao,the illustrated novel magazine was founded in January,1917,which has so many similarities or even coincides with the May Fourth New Culture as represented by New Youth.The first chapter makes a general analysis of the overall appearance of the illustrated novel magazine.First,it analyzes the cover,name,advertisement and other editing forms of the illustrated novel magazine,which enables to show Bao Tianxiao's simple and individual editing characteristics.Second,it emphasizes on the introduction of the illustrated novel magazine's writer group and novel types.After analyzing the overall personality and style of the illustrated novel writer group,it points out that writers are not pure " Mandarin Duck and Butterfly School" or "old-school" of the republic of China.What's more,they created novels which are not like those romance novels vulgarly during the period of the republic of China.In contrast,their novel type mainly concentrates on the satirical criticism,patriotic love,love and money,teachings,and family,etc.,and it gives first place to criticism,education,warning in some way progressive.Finally,the magazine is illustrated to analyze the drawers and pictures,and leading by Qian Binghe who had the spirit of satire and critical among the drawers,the pictures of the novel also have a strong progressive.Pleasure and Good combine subtly,which makes readers get both entertainment and useful truth.These progressive editing forms and magazine contents laid a foundation for the comparison with the May Fourth New Culture Movement.In the second chapter,the illustrated novel magazine is mentally compared with the May Fourth New Culture.Pioneers in the May Fourth New Culture Movement spares no effort to criticize the Chinese tradition,while the participants of the illustrated novel magazine inherited the Chinese traditional thought and corrected the deviation of the radical New Culture Movement.The pioneers of the New Culture Movement were totally Westernized.However,the writers in the illustrated novel magazine are able to take their advantages and discard their dregs,which is a valuable spirit.Both of them can absorb the thought of the common civilian and supplement each other,which are mainly reflected in the sincere emotions of the protagonists.The third chapter mainly introduces the leading posture and vanguard nature of the illustrated novel magazine.In terms of the magazine language,the illustrated novel magazine was the first vernacular literary magazine.Although Hu Shi also made a speech advocating vernacular language in the same month of the same year,it was not put into practice.On the contrary,the illustrated novel magazine first published vernacular novels.Although it has not been able to lead the change of the literary language,this style of language,with its own distinctive features,takes simple words and profound meanings.In terms of the novel system,the illustrated novel magazine is dominated by short stories that are created by the authors themselves,without any translated works,which is a reverse of the times when "translation is the most important".While in the same period The New Youth does not focus on creation,it has some of the translated works.In the form of magazines,the illustrated novel magazine inserts a lot of pictures,which are very special.Not only every novel is presented with illustrations,but also each issue has a lot of pictures about drama,clothing and so on,and every issue has some funny pictures with ironic and educational significance.Compared with The New Youth with relatively few illustrations and drawings,the pictures in the illustrated novel magazine are very rich,and there are certain educational significance,such as it shows that people need to know shame and humiliation and that people should not steal.The fourth chapter mainly analyzes from the perspective of the literary characteristics of the magazine,which lays a solid foundation for the new literature in the aspects of narration and description.In terms of narrative time,the novels in the illustrated novel magazine are not always coherent narration,but it adds flashbacks and other narrative methods,forming the rudiment of a certain degree of disordered narration.From the perspective of narration,the novels in the illustrated novel magazine do not use simple omniscient and omnipotent narration,but appear a limited narration from the perspective of "I".In terms of description,the illustrated novel magazine also has the shadows of psychological description and environmental description,which have improved the old novels and also have some influence on the new novels in the future.All in all,the illustrated novel magazine is closely related to the May Fourth New Culture in the aspects of magazine thought,language,form and magazine literary characteristics.