To Follow Across The Time&Space

Both “The Midnight”&“Of the Three Lane” are long classicsdescribing the history of Chinese urban revolution in1920’s-1930’s withpanoramic view schema and epic technique. One story is set in Shanghai,theother one in Guangzhou. Both are revolution cities of consequence in Chinesemodern and contemporary history. These are rare good works that fulfill theemptiness of contemporary literature in “urban revolution” aspect. Thisessay will study “Of the Three Lane” by Ou Yangshan, and “The Midnight”by Mao Dun, comparing from the perspective of urban revolution, to look intosimilar social conflicts, subjects and city space. It debates if it ispossible to follow the writing model of “Of the Three Lane” and “TheMidnight” through the perspective of urban revolution, and analyzes the leftwing’s impact on the17years’ revolution literary creation from detailsto general view and different era’s internal restrictions for the sametopics, to sum up a refreshed view on their status in modern contemporaryliterature history through the perspective of urban revolution.