Abstract
In late 1920s Shanghai tabloids flourished. With sensational news reports and literary narratives, they catered to urban readers' needs for daily emotional and cultural consumption. Due to their involvement in the Yunshang Company and theatre performances, Lu Xiaoman and Xu Zhimo became foci of Pictorial Shanghai and other major tabloids. Numerous news or rumors about their activities revealed different values, tastes, and commercial strategies among the tabloids, which told the game rules, ethics, and cultural politics of various communities and strata in the civil society. To a certain extent, the tabloids not only helped the masses know more about power relations but also mediated between the civil society and the state apparatus.
First Page
46
Last Page
60
Recommended Citation
Chen, Jianhua. 2016. "Consumption of Celebrity and the Republican Apparatus: Lu Xiaoman, Xu Zhimo and Tabloids in Late 1920s Shanghai." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 36, (5): pp.46-60. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol36/iss5/3
