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Shanghai Qingming Riverside Map
At the beginning of the article, Mr. Wu, a former reformer, was brought to Shanghai from the countryside. Along the way, he was dazzled and even shocked. He was scared out of his wits by the scenes of the Waibaidu Bridge and the Bund, and he was also stunned by fashionable women with scanty clothes and overflowing fragrance, electric lights, telephones and other electrical appliances. The man who has been able to keep up with the situation in the past few years now sees the light like an old zombie. He was shocked by the urbanization and modernization of Shanghai in the 1930s, and died as soon as he arrived at his son Wu Mansion.
After the death of Wu Xian, Wu Fu was in an uproar. From then on, in May and June of 1930, the author, centering on Wu Sunfu, a national capitalist, painted a picture of the Qingming Riverside in Shanghai, depicting the semi-feudal and semi-colonial old Shanghai at that time. The 300,000-word novel lasted only a few months. However, in the past few months, with Wu Sunfu's family infighting and enterprise struggle, the bustling and bizarre social and political environment has also unfolded one by one, which makes people puzzled and hidden.
Morning in Shanghai
The story has a source and the characters have their own characteristics.
There are many literary works describing the life in Shanghai during the Republic of China, but there are not many works describing the face of Shanghai in the early days of liberation. The novel Morning in Shanghai took 27 years from conception to completion. Its huge structure and numerous figures show the socialist transformation of Shanghai's capitalist industry and commerce in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China.
Many stories in the novel can be found in the news, and the capitalists, textile workers, cadres and the masses described in the novel have distinct characteristics of the times. This novel records the unique Shanghai scene in that period of history.
Biography of flowers on the sea
? Shanghai literature? Pioneering work of
This is? Wu Wenxue's first masterpiece? (Hu Shi's language), a masterpiece that will occupy a place in the history of modern literature in China.
The novel describes a brothel in Shili sheep farm, but there is no exposure and condemnation of prostitutes. Just according to the nature of life, write about human depravity and depravity. People of all colors are struggling in a huge and invisible web of evil. They have neither good nor evil, but also good and evil. Various narrative structures, even the use of Wu dialect, this book is groundbreaking and a new starting point in the history of modern literature. Mr. Lu Xun once commented on this book? A work that is neither beautiful nor evil, plain and natural and almost real? .
Another of its outstanding attributes is its thickness. Shanghai narrative? . Because of its unique aesthetic and spatial imagination of Shanghai, this book is known as? Shanghai literature? Pioneering work. The content of the novel is completely rooted in the social changes in modern Shanghai, intertwined with? Everyday? With what? Business? This is rare in previous novels.
Zhang Ailing not only translated this novel of Wu into Mandarin, but also into English, namely Flowers on the Sea and Flowers on the Sea. Hou Xiaoxian and Zhu Tianwen also adapted it into a movie. So far, in film and television works? Shanghai story? It still has its shadow, so, as the source of Biography of Flowers on the Sea, how can you not read it?
The Everlasting Regret
In the alley? Modern Shanghai epic?
How many secret stories are hidden in the intricate alleys of Shanghai, such as the folds in the depths of the city. Wang Qiyao, a lovely girl in the alley, is a typical Shanghai girl. 18 years old, born with beauty, what have you gained? Miss Shanghai? Third place in the competition, from which I got to know government officials and began to make a living. With the liberation of Shanghai and previous revolutionary movements, Wang Qiyao's fate was as turbulent as riding a roller coaster. After losing her protector, she lived in the depths of the alley again, but her beauty and life experience attracted all kinds of emotional entanglements and character stories until she was killed by her daughter's friends at the age of knowing her destiny.
Wang Anyi, a female writer, won the 5th Mao Dun Literature Award for her Song of Eternal Sorrow. The seemingly plain but humorous style in the article shows the people and cities in the changing times in the small details of life, which is known as? Modern Shanghai epic? .
Huakai Shanghai
Every dress and every meal has feelings.
Bao, who grew up in a foreign house in the French Concession, Hu Sheng, who came from a cadre family, and, who came from an ordinary worker family, met in Shanghai in the 1960s, and their lives have been intertwined ever since. Starting from the three perspectives provided by their different circumstances, the author quietly swept through every corner of the streets of Shanghai, laying out the ups and downs of various little people's experiences under the background of the great era. Time goes forward and backward like the tide. In the 1990s, three Shanghai boys were middle-aged, with mottled memories and complicated minds. Looking back, it seems like flowers are blooming.
Through Jin Yucheng's narrative, in "Flowers Bloom in Shanghai", the trivial things of clothing and food have feelings; The commonness between the common people and the secular world also implies meaning; The calm reduction of the daily world is that the curve can be straight and the secret can be sparse.
Shanghai with flowers in full bloom is called? One of the best Shanghai novels and one of the best urban novels? , originally published on the website studying the local customs of Shanghai, was launched by Harvest on 20 12, which caused a sensation in the literary world and was widely praised. A literature museum has been established. After many years, you should look back at Shanghai and look for it in novels. ?
Shibaquan
Comedy becomes tragedy, and love becomes ferocious.
Who else is worse than Zhang Ailing? Shanghai? As a Shanghai writer, many of her works are inextricably linked with Shanghai. However, even though she has written all the unforgettable stories under the eaves of old Shanghai in that era, Half-Life is still Zhang Ailing's most unique novel.
The work tells a love story that happened in Shanghai. The original ordinary love, because it happened in the old Shanghai, which was full of lights and desires, became mysterious and even ferocious. 18 of the time passed under Zhang Ailing's pen, and lovers reunited in Shanghai. At this time, they looked at each other's faces and knew it was too late.
1950 When writing this novel, Zhang Ailing used a pseudonym? Liang Jing? The novel named Eighteen Springs has an ordinary comedy ending: after the hero and heroine get together and leave, they go to the Northeast to contribute to national construction.
1968, Zhang Ailing made a big revision to the novel, and even the name was changed to Half-Life. The novel focuses on the description of love, life and fate as an individual: what the novel seeks for marriage is an independent and self-respecting Shanghai new woman and a progressive youth. However, in the face of fate, their love can't stand misunderstanding, time and reality, and will eventually be like catkins flying all over the sky. The source of this impermanence is Zhang Ailing's indifferent attitude towards life, and it is also the glitz and coldness of a bustling metropolis.
This is exactly 18 years before the novel was founded. When she went to Qiu Lai in the spring of 18, Zhang Ailing herself will also move from middle age to old age. Life is a gorgeous robe full of lice? .
Xiepuchao
A masterpiece that has long been neglected.
Zhu is a popular literature writer who transcends modern times. The masterpiece Crab Tide is serialized in Modern Crossroads 19 16 to 192 1.
Researchers generally believe that after 19 10, the novel creation has undergone a complete transformation, from being highly serious? New novel? Become promiscuous and please the public? Mandarin duck and butterfly pie? Novel. However, Jie Pu Chao is not only serious, but also critically examines the ideas and systems from the West and their influence on China. Zhu discussed the new influence on society in the process of the penetration of western tentacles into Shanghai. Many pen and ink focus on the details of pain and ugliness, expressing the sadness that the author thinks the most vulgar pragmatism has been firmly established in Shanghai in the new era.
Of course, this kind of reprimand for the moral indulgence of old Shanghai at that time was in the late Qing Dynasty? New novel? This is quite common, but Zhu gave a more predictive warning. By describing the worse situation after the Revolution of 1911? Does this mean that effective reform and good government will get nothing? The author uttered the most desperate voice of his time.
Among the contemporaries, only Zhang Ailing constantly mentioned the influence of Xie Puchao on her own creation, and regretted that later critics ignored this masterpiece satirizing the urban scene.
financier
Art? History?
Houses are scattered on both sides of the quiet street. Through the branches and leaves of the phoenix tree, I saw people's lights and occasionally dogs barked.
Jia Zhu, a financier, lives in such a Shanghai, a Shanghai in a foreign house.
The main line of the novel is Zhu, the head of the Zhu family. Behind him, the history of the Bank of China is faintly visible. The author once wrote in an article:? My poor book The Financier is based on the story of my grandfather and the Bank of China. ? Only in novels? Bank of China? Virtual composition? Bank of China? .
The history of clear pronunciation and mellow voice is written by official documents, while the history of travel notes in literary and artistic works is a panoramic 3D picture of the times, which is the author's insight into the intricate interpersonal relationships of all social strata under the grand social background. Marx once said that Balzac's novels reflect social phenomena more thoroughly than economists. It can be said that financiers also have this function in reflecting the financial situation in old Shanghai.
The Entity
30,000 words, more than many long speeches.
Xu Xu's novels have their own distinctive personal style. Most stories are based on adventures, strange people and strange things. Love is sad and the plot is tense. The appearance of the novel is western, and readers in any country will not feel strange when they read it, but inside it is China's, which is beautiful and free from vulgarity, but the ghost writing is fairy-like. This is extremely rare. The same story, some people write it as a street novel, some people write it as a masterpiece, and the middle boundary is difficult to analyze clearly with the usual research methods.
Ghost Love is a famous work by Xu Xu 1937, which was adapted into a movie "A Night Alone" by the late painter Chen Yifei.
Leng Yan's story is full of twists and turns. The plot is not rigid, and the atmosphere is extremely exaggerated, right? Ghosts? The short 30,000-word sculpture surpasses many long stories and is unforgettable.
Although Lin Yutang thinks that Xu Xu and Lu Xun are the greatest writers in China in the 20th century, their circumstances are totally different. After moving to Hong Kong, Xu Xu was soon forgotten by the mainland. However, although not many people know about Xu Xu, as long as you pick up his books, you may become addicted.
Shanghai trilogy
In the romantic months, small but solid metaphors can be seen everywhere.
Shanghai is always full of energy, conflict and ambition. It has never been at peace with the world, nor has it been impassioned, but its romantic months are full of small and solid metaphors, and its crossroads reflect countless past and future, as well as multiple present.
Chen, a native writer in Shanghai, began to look for the feeling of his hometown, recorded his daily life, folk memory and personal history in the great changes of his city, and portrayed the face of Shanghai imperceptibly and independently.
In the new Shanghai trilogy, Chen adds a section to each chapter, adding the latest content from 2008 to 20 15 years on the basis of the original open structure, with a total of more than 20,000 words and dozens of new pictures.
La chambre bleue
Cheng Naishan regards this blue house as the epitome of Shanghai history.
Published in Zhongshan No.4, 1983, is the representative work of Cheng Naishan, a contemporary writer in China. The prototype of the blue house is located in Tongren Road? Green house? Old Shanghai is no stranger. This four-story building with curved blue brick surface was created by Hudac, a famous contemporary architect, and its owner is Wu, a famous pigment king in old Shanghai. In the new novel, Cheng Naishan regards this brothel as the epitome of Shanghai history.
Shanghai is a big city? Blue room?
The prototype of the blue house is located in Tongren Road? Green house? Old Shanghai is no stranger. This four-story building with curved blue brick surface was created by Hudac, a famous contemporary architect, and its owner is Wu, a famous pigment king in old Shanghai. In the new novel, Cheng Naishan regards this brothel as the epitome of Shanghai history. She said:? The whole city of Shanghai is a big blue room. I concentrated the city of Shanghai in the Blue Room, reflecting the history of Shanghai from the 1930s to the present. The old house itself is the witness of history, and people are the soul of architecture. Such a house with a long history seems to be a dialogue between people and time and space, which not only reflects the architectural style of Shanghai, but also reflects the humiliation of Shanghainese through ups and downs. The combination of such buildings and such people must be unique to Shanghai. ?