Abstract
Urbanity and urbanization became the two key objectives of Shanghai Literature which claimed to aim at contemporaneity, literariness and experimental spirit, and the aims had also helped to construct a context for the magazine's popularity in the 1990s', and this made the magazine a leading literary periodical in China. One the one hand, it promoted varied ways to discuss, describe and present urban scenes. On the other hand, it excelled in the literary magazine market through its internal restructuring and external positioning to create a style of being open and multifaceted, and hence the magazine succeeded in establishing a literary field of its own, and integrated well into the increasingly complicated social cultural mechanism. The paper concludes that Shanghai Literature has both engaged in the construction of Chinese social culture in the 1990s and presented itself as part and parcel of the culture through its representation of the culture.
First Page
70
Last Page
77
Recommended Citation
Feng, Yuan. 2013. "The Urban Imagination of Shanghai Literature: with Focus upon the 1990s'." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 33, (4): pp.70-77. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol33/iss4/24
