Old Shanghai Cultural Life Series -- A Chronicler of the Cocktail Era

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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: This book explores and studies various aspects of the literary journal Modern from multiple perspectives, including the editorial philosophy and creative orientation of its magazine editor, representative columns, the characteristics of poetry and translated foreign fiction, and the works of representative writers and critics. It also examines the formation of the Modern literary group. The aim is to attempt new interpretations and understandings of Modern and the writers associated with it. Of course, whether the goal is achieved remains to be seen. Most of the articles in this book revolve around the Modern magazine. As a literary journal that enjoyed great acclaim in the early 1930s, it not only published works by, , , , , , but more importantly, it featured a large number of works and translations with Western modernist influences by authors such as , , , , , . This led to the formation of a notable "modernist" group of writers. Although this group was loose, without issuing any notices or manifestos, or establishing separate publications, some editors, like , even actively avoided such trends. Nevertheless, their works published in Modern demonstrated their shared literary tastes and artistic pursuits. The journal Modern also, to some extent, integrated and reinforced their literary preferences and artistic goals, further expanding their influence. Therefore, using Modern as a backdrop for studying these "modernist" writers, or examining Modern itself as an object of study, remains meaningful.