The Hsin Shun Pao And Modern Shanghai Labor Movement(1918-1921)

In this paper, the author takes The Hsin Shun Pao from1918to1921as the main historicalinformation with The Shun Pao and other relevant informations to reflect the workers’ livingconditions and class characteristics in early stages through exploring this era of Shanghai workers’daily living and labor movements.As the one of the important Chinese daily news in modern Shanghai, The Hsin Shun Pao notonly gives great attentions and sympathies on Shanghai workers and labor movements, but alsocontains the high historical value. As the authenticity and diversity of the report, The Hsin ShunPao provides the important historical resource for studying the Shanghai workers and labormovements in modern times. Shanghai workers were not feeble in this period despite facing thedifferent oppression and infringement from the external environment. They used their ways toresist for their own living space and benefits constantly. The workers had not changed their statuseswhen they got into the city and the factory. They remained the rural thinking habits and behaviormode and also expressed these features in workers’ movements. At the same time, the workingclass consciousness and class consciousness in workers had improved gradually. So, undoubtedly ithas important significance for us deepening the understanding about the workers and the labormovements in modern times through this period of Shanghai workers’ basic characteristics.