Wandering in Shanghai: Cultural Landscape of “Shijie Fanhua Bao” in Late-Ching Dynasty

• Main Authors: Shuhua-Tsai, 蔡淑華
• Other Authors: Yu-Cheng Yang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2009
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/03551604625990366091

碩士 === 國立暨南國際大學 === 中國語文學系 === 97 === This thesis aims to show the literary value of “Shijie Fanhua Bao” and observes how the literary and cultural problems presented in Late-Ching tabloids, and clarifies the meaning of the descriptions the tabloids. The thesis is divided into five parts: By using the trivial reports, the brothel columns intend to construct that how reporters in late-Ching mold actors with the layout of the printed newspapers. Also, based on Yuan Zhang’s stage, this thesis analyses how prostitutes become Shanghai landscape, and discusses the narrative of brothel columns. The news reports reveal the imperfect employment system of competition of actors in Shanghai theaters. A script in serial form in the newspaper is a special phenomenon. By adding the element of restoration, which is a popular issue of his time, Bo-yuan Li adapts the news into “Revised Operas Based on Current Events.” He narrates the unique aura of his age in a satirical way. The early fragmental theatrical comments appears in the tabloids promote the later professional theatrical commentators. The serials of novels in the newspapers illustrate that how a late-Ching writer develops a new way to compose a novel by interweaving the news and literature, and the intertextuality between tabloid columns and literary works. Several materials about “Boxer Rebellion Lyrics,”are found in the columns of “Shijie Fanhua Bao.” To Bo-yuan Li, the many columns of tabloids are like his literary experiments, blending various types of works. Ancient forms with new contents—this is how the writers cater the new citizen’s reading tastes.