The Image Of Youth And Youth Culture Construction Of Life Weekly

Life Weekly as one of the representative of Chinese popular culture magazine1920s and1930s,which is writing youth groups as the main target,Starting from dailylife, construct the modern Chinese youth subculture with innovative, stylish writing.The main question of this paper is about what function the Life Weekly played inthe process of construction of modern Chinese youth culture,and what impact onyouth’s ideological concept, mental structure, emotional expression, etc. From thecultural characteristics of Life Weekly, the construction of youth image, creating youthaesthetic life,and modern sense of youth culture and so on,to highlight the culturaltension of Life Weekly,and the role of promoting Chinese modernity.Under thediscourse framework of the mass media and social change, we can examine theinteractive model between "life" and modern Chinese youth culture.As a product of the times, Life Weekly has a very important modernenlightenment significance to modern Chinese social development.It promoted thesecularization of Chinese society and inspired the public’s desires of life quality,recreation, cultural consumption,influenced the selection and use of the disseminationof information of the audience, especially for the urban poor youth provided theimagination and imitation paradigm,also constructed youth identity.Therefore,theurban life imagination of the Life Weekly,not just simply cultural landscape, moreprofoundly reflects the dramatic changes in cultural trends and social values intransformation process of modern Chinese city.