The Shanghai Urban Writing By Chen Danyan

In1990s, Lots of literary Creation and writers around “Nostalgia for Shanghai”emerged in endless in the Shanghai Literary Circle. Chen Danyan was one of the mostimportant female writes during among those writers. Her literary works has all kindsof numerous and a rich content. Her comprehension and expression of Shanghaiexplains her originality of design with the city and has received a large number ofconcerns.This thesis tries to put in order and interpret the Shanghai urban writing by ChenDanyan. Depending on her literary works, this thesis focus on the two aspects, contentand form of shanghai urban writing. the Environmental Features of Shanghai as ahybrid type of the Chinese and western styles, the gentle tough images of Shanghaiwomen and common figure characters of male images form the content of ChenDanyan’s writing. the Shifts of the narrative perspective and writing pattern are twodistinct parts of the pictorial formal composition. At last, this thesis discusses themeanings and shortcoming of the Shanghai urban writing by Chen Danyan.