Late Qing and Republican Era Shanghai Small Papers (Illustrated Edition)

Author: Li Nan
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Publishing Date: 2006-09-01
Features: The small newspaper is a small-scale publication in modern cities that primarily caters to leisure and entertainment, with a wide readership among the middle and lower classes. It is a typical text reflecting the transformation of modern urban culture. Starting with small newspapers, the author conducts an in-depth and integrative exploration of the romance culture and Shanghai 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, representing the popular literature of the urban masses. Small newspaper fiction is characterized by its serialization, fashionability, and unfinished tense, which connects with news and explores themes of sexuality, serving as a "ukiyo-e" of the urban populace. Small newspaper essays directly inherit the tradition of ancient Chinese anecdotal notes, based on the modern "journalistic style" and adapted by the playful and hedonistic temperament of the "urban scholars" of the small newspapers. This book comprehensively and systematically organizes the Shanghai small newspapers from the late Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China period, combining both reference value and readability. It includes over a hundred old photographs related to Shanghai small newspapers, providing a vivid and illustrated display of the urban atmosphere of Shanghai at that time. 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, offering a vivid and illustrated display of the urban atmosphere of Shanghai in that era. 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, representing the popular literature of the urban masses. Small newspaper fiction is characterized by its serialization, fashionability, and unfinished tense, which connects with news and explores themes of sexuality, serving as a "ukiyo-e" of the urban populace. Small newspaper essays directly inherit the tradition of ancient Chinese anecdotal notes, based on the modern "journalistic style" and adapted by the playful and hedonistic temperament of the "urban scholars" of the small newspapers. This book comprehensively and systematically organizes the Shanghai small newspapers from the late Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China period, combining both reference value and readability. It includes over a hundred old photographs related to Shanghai small newspapers, providing a vivid and illustrated display of the urban atmosphere of Shanghai at that time.