Research on Shanghai small newspapers during the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China: A comprehensive cultural and literary examination

Author: Li Nan
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Publish Date: 2005-09-01
Features: The Shanghai small newspapers addressed in this book represent an almost entirely new field for the study of modern Chinese literature. It is the first academic monograph to comprehensively and systematically examine Shanghai small newspapers from the late Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China. The small newspapers imagine Shanghai as a city symbolized by celebrities, weaving the narrative history of the metropolis with "rumors," and filling it with modern, trendy, and materialistic urban spaces. Small newspaper literature is a popular literature that blends the old and the new. With the help of small newspapers, one can integrateively contemplate the romance culture and the Haipai culture.