The People Of Shanghai Culture, Theory, And Modern Popular Fiction

Literature is the carrier of culture,and culture is a background that is indispensable to literature.There is very close relationship between literature and culture.The study of the interaction between culture and literature ,as well as philosophzing about the features of Shanghai's modern tawdry novels, is a meaningful subject.Specialities of Shanghai's literature and culture lie first in the special history of Shanghai.Having been open to foreign countries for a long time,Shanghai became a great cosmopolitan city in the early 1930's,so Shanghai has been showing its particularly local culture features in economy,culture and literature.Shanghai Culture has become a noticeable and universally accepted concept.Shanghai Culture cannot be seperated from the city of Shanghai,developing with the development of the city.The dominant feature of Shanghai Culture is to serve city residents.The Culture Of City Culture ,which is the basic attribute of Shanghai Culture,posses the features of Openness and public, commercialism and consumming, and the connection of the modern and traditional.Shanghai Culture of City Residents gave birth to many types of modern tewdry novels, which contain many factors of the culture of city residents,including romantic fictions,Kong Fu novels,detective novels and society novels.In respect of romantic fictions,in early Republic China,the pop writers described Love only by themselves;later,Zhang Henshui introduced Love to the society;after that,Zhang Ailing described the profane life of"crawling with lice".Since then,romantic fictions has left off its poetic semblance,showing its original face---sagacious calculations,hard life and ennui.All that reflected the true life of city residents and the ordinary human beings.In respect of Kong Fu novels,the writers sought fairness and justice,while detective novels not only edified intelligence but showed love.Essentially, they were the same:between justice,morality and laws,they were in favour of justice and morality;however,they both despised legislation,which might be the predestination hard to get rid of in the old China in which the ordinary people were short of care and the rule of man prevailed the rule of laws.In respect of the society fictions,the description of the colorful lives of the city residents was in accord with the literary description of essensial sipirit of the city residents'culture,and they were the ones that showed"A Complicated true portrait of metropolitan lives".In respect of the art of creation,the pop novels were different from modern literature in the notions of creation,the choice of subjects and the ways of telling stories ;on the other hand ,they merged into modern literature in some ways.Newspapers,magazines,bookstores and presses were, in fact, benificial to the prosperity and development of Shanghai Modern Pop Novels.During the course of the development of Shanghai Modern Pop Novels,they promoted the formation and development of the city residents'society,public spaceand individual notions.The features of pop novels---free expression,conversations ,multiple styles and tolerance --- were demands of both art itself and City Residents'Culture.Shanghai Modern Pop Novels were catalyzed and aroused by modern commercial economy and cultural market.The establishment of culture market created the outer environment and social atomosphere for pop novels and changed the styles of them from classical styles to modern ones.Shanghai Modern Pop Novels play a very important part in modern Chinese literature.The language situation is formed by Modern literature developing and permeating into New Literature simultaneously.