Late Qing and Republican Shanghai Small Newspapers - Illustrated Edition

Author: Li Nan
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Publish Date: 2006-09-01
Features: The small newspaper is a small-scale publication in modern urban areas that focuses on leisure and entertainment, catering to a broad readership of middle and lower-class citizens. It is a typical text reflecting the transformation of modern urban culture. Starting with small newspapers, the author conducts an in-depth, integrative exploration of the Yanguhu culture and the Haipai culture. The imagined Shanghai in small newspapers uses celebrities as symbols of the urban image, weaves the narrative history of the city with "rumors," and is filled with a modern, trendy, and materialistic urban space. Small newspaper literature is a hybrid of old and new, serving as popular literature for the masses. Small newspaper fiction is characterized by its serialization, fashionability, and the use of the present perfect tense, which connects it to news and sexual themes, serving as a "ukiyo-e" of urban life. Small newspaper essays directly inherit the tradition of ancient Chinese anecdotal notes, and are playful texts adjusted by the whimsical temperament of small newspaper literati in the modern "newspaper style" based on the "secular talents of the." This book comprehensively and systematically organizes the Shanghai small newspapers from the late Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China period, combining both research value and readability. It includes over a hundred old photographs related to Shanghai small newspapers, vividly displaying the urban atmosphere of Shanghai at the time through illustrations and text. Since its publication, the book has been well-received by readers and praised by experts. For this reissue, it includes over a hundred old photographs related to Shanghai small newspapers, vividly displaying the urban atmosphere of Shanghai at the time through illustrations and text. The imagined Shanghai in small newspapers uses celebrities as symbols of the urban image, weaves the narrative history of the city with "rumors," and is filled with a modern, trendy, and materialistic urban space. Small newspaper literature is a hybrid of old and new, serving as popular literature for the masses. Small newspaper fiction is characterized by its serialization, fashionability, and the use of the present perfect tense, which connects it to news and sexual themes, serving as a "ukiyo-e" of urban life. Small newspaper essays directly inherit the tradition of ancient Chinese anecdotal notes, and are playful texts adjusted by the whimsical temperament of small newspaper literati in the modern "newspaper style" based on the "secular talents of the." This book comprehensively and systematically organizes the Shanghai small newspapers from the late Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China period, combining both research value and readability. It includes over a hundred old photographs related to Shanghai small newspapers, vividly displaying the urban atmosphere of Shanghai at the time through illustrations and text.