Abstract
This article sheds light on the sharp confrontation between New Culture intellectuals and the popular literati from 1921 to 1923. As a key word, the term "Saturday School" is derived from Saturday, an influential popular periodical in early Republican Shanghai. And in fact, the production process of "Saturday School" was intensely bound up with the "new/old" debate in modern Chinese literary history. Based on close reading of historical material and contextual analysis, the article concludes that the debate between "new" and "old" was concerned more with the competition over the discourse power of defining "what is new", which directly led to the control of "symbolic capital" of the era. Additionally, popular literati's experiences of the debate in the early 1920s gave them the motivation for self-positioning and self-presentation.
First Page
90
Last Page
98
Recommended Citation
Luo, Meng. 2016. "From Saturday to the "Saturday School": A Discussion on the "New/old" Debate in the Early 1920s." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 36, (5): pp.90-98. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol36/iss5/7
