Author: Luo Meng
Publisher: Shanghai People's Publishing House
Publication Date: October 2023
ISBN: 9787208184497
The research focuses on popular literature from the mid-1910s to the mid-1920s, with special attention to the production status of the emerging genre "short story" and depicts the mass cultural atmosphere and characteristics reflected from it. "Short story" became a major newspaper and periodical genre in the 1910s, occupying an important position in publications of different types and with different value orientations. Through comparison and cross-reference, the research outlines the differentiated features of popular literature. At the same time, the research attempts to prove that it is precisely under the catalysis of interaction with other cultural and literary forces that "popularity" has formed its own characteristics, sense of boundary and identity awareness.
