The Study Of The Remarkable Book Of Shanghai

The first modern periodical dedicated to fiction,The Remarkable Book Of Shanghai was founded,arranged and written by Han Bangqing in 1892,with a total of 15 issues.The Remarkable Book Of Shanghai adopts the style of traditional books in appearance.Each column is independently coded and matched with pictures and texts.It is also considered to be the earliest literary periodical with pictures and texts.The Remarkable Book Of Shanghai has three columns.The first column,Tai Xian Man Gao,is a short story written by Han Bangqing in classical Chinese.The second column,The sing-song Girls of Shanghai is a long chapter story in Wu dialects written by him,and the third column,Wo You Ji,is a compilation of delightful and surprising notebook novels collected by him from previous novels.Each of the three columns has its own unique ideological connotation and artistic characteristics.The three kinds of novels published in The Remarkable Book Of Shanghai,especially the serial of The sing-song Girls of Shanghai,have had an important impact on the later Xia Xie Novel and Shanghai Style Literature.Han Bangqing’s creative method of writing and publishing at the same time also affected the later creation of newspaper novels,which is of great significance in the development history of modern novels.At the same time,the publication of The Remarkable Book Of Shanghai shows that the development of China’s journalism tends to befinely divided,with the emergence of specialized publications that focused on the publication of novels.This article takes The Remarkable Book Of Shanghai as the object of study.Based on the existing literature,it explores the background of the creation of The Remarkable Book Of Shanghai,its creators,its basic style,its marketing methods and the reasons for its discontinuation of the publication.Analyses the main contents of the three columns of The Remarkable Book Of Shanghai and its artistic characteristics,and summarizes the value and significance of The Remarkable Book Of Shanghai in the history of the development of fiction and the history of journalism and publishing.