Study Of The Media Life In Midnight

From the late Qing Dynasty to the early Republic of China,under the influence of the western tide,the civil society rose,the capitalism developed and the culture changed rapidly.From the "May 4th" Enlightenment to the 1930s,natural sciences and humanities’development entered an academic peak.With its popularization and development,the mass media got more closely linked with social economy,politics and culture.To a certain extent,the mass media shaped the urban people’s life.Therefore,"media life" has the necessity and value for research.Midnight-with the background of the old Shanghai before and after 1930,with a clue of the decline of Wu Sunpu’s industry,reflecting the contradiction and struggle between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie,and the different interests groups inside the bourgeoisie in the society of the Republic of China-is a realistic novel with the significance of the times.My choice of Midnight is due to the background city of the text story-Shanghai was the most concentrated area of mass media development,the characters in the novel were also the most popular and most skilled group to mass media.Therefore,the study has the representativeness and necessity.The author,by peering through Mao Dun’s description of the media life of Wu Sunpu and people around him,can speculate on the guidance and influence which the mass media gave on the life of the urban ethnic capitalists and the new young intellectuals in ShanghaiAs an outstanding proletarian writer,Mao Dun was very good at using the media to carry out the revolutionary activities.His own rich media life in the revolutionary struggle was the precondition and basics of portraying the media life of the Midnight.Mao Dun’s participation in social life and social activities during the period of the Republic of China was very high His media activities had an important influence on the political and cultural development during the period of the Republic of China,and the related materials were preserved completely.Therefore,the study of the characters in the Midnight and the media life of Mr.Mao Dun will help us to understand urban-take Shanghai city as a representative-people’s media life in the period of the Republic of China.The full text is divided into six chapters.The first chapter is the introduction,which expounds the background of this study.Through the analysis of the media life of the protagonist in the modern realistic novel Midnight,it analyzes the media life of the national bourgeoisie and modern intellectuals of Shanghai in the 30s of last century,and the changes of the mass media in social life.The second chapter is the study of China’s modernization in the period of the Republic of China and its presentation in the Midnight.It is divided into three parts of politics,economy and culture,and mainly expounds the development background in the Republic of China of the mass media described in the Midnight.The third chapter is the construction of the media form and the modern urban image in the Midnight,taking Shanghai as an example to analyze the connection between the development of mass media and the construction of urban image and the cultural environment of the Shanghai school from the three typical media:advertising,newspaper and film.The fourth chapter is the analysis of the elements of media life in the Midnight,which is divided into three aspects:the content of communication,the reception of the group and the effect of communication,studies the typical plot of the media life of people in the novel.The fifth chapter is the expansion of the media life of Mao Dun,the author of the Midnight.The media life in Midnight,to a certain extent,is the realism and mapping of Mao Dun’s media life.In the study of the relationship between the two,the relationship between the writer’s media life and literary works is further understood.