The Modern City In The Context Of China "magazine Text

Magazine has played an important role through the history of neoteric and modern literature. Yet, in the years of literature research, it was novel that often attracted researchers'attention, so prosaic magazine was nearly neglected. This dissertation, which focuses on the magazine article concept proposed by Yu-tang Lin in 1930s, manages to comb the developing vein of prosaic magazine through the history of magazine in China, looks for the deferent representation modality and characteristics within deferent times in the evolution of magazine articles. Demonstrate leisure function of magazine articles and keeps an eye on the modality of modern magazine articles. The article is composed of six parts: introduction, four chapters and epilogue. In the introduction, this dissertation, which takes the magazine article concept raised by Yu-tang Lin as a core, gives out a conceptual clarification on magazine article, and briefly summarizes initial situation of Chinese magazine, thus study scope of this dissertation is defined. Chapter one, the development of neoteric shanghai city and early modality of magazine articles. Shanghai , regard the cession as the core, fleetly expanded to a international and modern city for the geography advantage after it was invaded. the development of its industry and commerce and growing up of citizen class lay a tough foundation for the mass literature. With the corporate action of readers and editors, novel played a dominating role in the early mass literary magazine. Otherwise, there hided the most common and easiest magazine articles'modality: jokes and interesting writings. Their expression style was entirely deferent from novel. And magazine in itself changed bit by bit simultaneously. Before 1914 or later, there were a lot of prosaic articles whose principle part was notes and miscellanies, on behalf of 《Civil Rights》and 《Novel Concourse》. They were the main modality of early magazine articles. Whose characteristics are: First: Short prosaic joke, humor and anecdotes focusing on interest, expressed recreational trend and leisure motive. Second: in the trend of ample columns, more and more prosaic articles such as notes and miscellanies and essays come forth in later magazine. They recorded and narrated society phenomena, anecdotes, with random writing style and numerous and jumbled content. And share certain homogeneity with modern magazine articles. Third: early magazine articles didn't distinct from novel. It has obvious independence and jumble. the notes from the insertions of《Civil Rights》reflect modality characteristics of early magazine articles obviously. Chapter two, this chapter mainly expounds transformation of magazine and the ultimate form of modern magazine article in the developing process of Chinese modernization cities in 1920s and 1930s, which took shanghai as representative From 1920s to early 1930s, further development of industry and commerce flourished cities in China. Modernization progress in education ,traffic ,communication,recreation,work and consumption, especially represented by shanghai city, cause coexistence of new and old life styles which were on the way to modern urban living. so did citizens'knowledge structure. Then content,columns,writing styles etc published on mass literary magazines also varied with them, proportion of magazine articles in journal expanded evidently, till it became the principle part of magazine. Yet modality of magazine article experienced an elementary development within this process. from early Republic of China till 1920s, Clique of mandarin duck & butterfly adjusted magazine spontaneously. their periodicals still had more advantages than new literature under atmosphere of mass media. it also influenced the mass widely. represented by 《Red Rose》《,Red Journal》and《Violet》,magazine article, with more and more proportion in journals of its clique ,still had the latter-day impression and was incline to transit into modern magazine articles. but embodied Clique of mandarin duck & butterfly tried to adopt to the wishes of readers. also their pursuit of modernization and absorption and close of new literature. From latter 1920s on, the emergence of mass literature magazine dominated by magazine articles predicted the magazine began to regress its true qualities of "miscellaneous", "recordation".from latter 1920s to early 1930s, with full development, represented by articles published in《Beneficial Friends》, magazine article grew into the main part of magazine. which implied the ultimate of modern magazine article. it convey readers read value deferent from novel and traditionaljournals because of its richness, aesthetic character, intellectuality and quality of interest. Chapter three, taking Yu-tang Lin as representative, under modernization metropolis linguistic environment in Shanghai,《the World 》and《Universe Wind》took the core, promoted with great effort to the western magazine article and facilitates maturity and prosperous of the Chinese modern magazine article. From the end of 1920s to 1930s, Due to double pressure of foreign capital and China itself, Chinese industry and commerce made rapid development, the urbanization process was also accelerated. Cities that have finished the modernization drive of the city basically in the modern city of China represented by Shanghai, had a more complete modern form from living facility to amusement scope. Modern urban life style in the city grew ripe, citizens'artistic diathesis improves, their knowledge structures more generally tended towards the modernization and multiplicity. especially in Shanghai where the mass media system was comparatively ripe, the magazine demonstrates ripe modern characteristic too in such aspects of whole style and content. Therefore magazine document become subject of masses literature and art magazine, it made comparatively sufficient development. In the tide of magazine establishment at middle 1930s in Shanghai, Yu-tang Lin, and his《universe wind》in order to draw lessons from the western magazine, called for the Chinese magazine articles created in a more cost-effective manner, impelled its development ripe and move towards the prosperity. These two kinds of magazines have represented magazine supreme achievement of this period generally each with particular emphasis. In conformity with Yu-tang Lin and people's magazine idea, " magazine articles from magazine of《Universe Wind》and《the World》were abundant, free and cordial, have reflected popularization, popularized inclination, they also paid attention to the interest of the article, intellectual and living, have demonstrated on one hand his " helpful " one, have deep recreation intension, embody the publicizing of the modern life and modern spirit too. In 1930s 《the World》and《Universe Wind》is favourably welcomed by readers, this has reflected amicability and agreement between knowledge readers of elite and citizen of new-vernacular literature after new literary publication enters theefforts that the new writer raises reader's educational level and magazine level too Chapter four, simply introduces the condition of magazines article in 1940s. Because the war affects, it was 1940s that came forth the phenomenon, taking Shanghai as representative ,Chinese metropolis developed slowly even back up, the resident live also were affected to some degree. At the same time, development of modern literary arts periodical also correspondingly entered into downturn. Take《phenomena》and 《the World》as representative, although the modern magazine article in the quantity brought some reduction compared with the 1930s, its aspects of content and theme still expanded actually. 《phenomena》,with great influence, was regarded as representation of Clique of mandarin duck & butterfly in 1940s, though it published novel mainly, but magazine space left for magazine articles was also not little, and articles authors were beyond of professional writers. the periodical, with simple ,natural words, abundant ,heterogeneous content incarnated situation and achievement of concourse of "the new"and "the old", the editor of《Heaven and Earth》, Qing Su ,greatly relevant to《the World》and《Universe Wind》,his concept of release and magazine article was influenced by Yu-tang Lin, so《Universe Wind》,which was the rage then, hide the shadow of《the world》and《Universe Wind 》. However ,it had its own style, writers either celebrities or not, always "bring out his saying in an ordinary status", so the magazine put up distinct mundane spirit and included content close to life and writing style at will, tender but not coarse. such was the best progress of magazine articles in 1940s. The epilogue gives a simple retrospection and summary, magazine article penetrated with deferent modalities and deferent characters through the developing process of china mass literature magazine. from then on, magazine article has put up character of popularity, understandability and close to life, All of which embodied a modernization trend, another important facet that characterized magazine article was authors were developed to more social personages by the writer and scholar of the absolute majority too, demonstrate the important characteristic of the modern literature and magazine.Yu-tang Lin 's magazine idea have very great influence on the development of Chinese magazine (magazine article) after the thirties, even in the 1980s and 1990s, from a series of magazines in great demand, such as 《Women Friend》and 《Reader's Digest》etc, we can still see the impression of ideas of Yu-tang Lin on magazine article.