The "Life Weekly" was founded in Shanghai in 1925, and is the largest magazine with the largest number of readers ever recorded. The main readers of this magazine are young people, mainly students and urban workers who lived in the Southeast coast ar ...
The "Life Weekly" was founded in Shanghai in 1925, and is the largest magazine with the largest number of readers ever recorded. The main readers of this magazine are young people, mainly students and urban workers who lived in the Southeast coast area including Shanghai. The common interest of these young people was their close relationship with their lives. In other words, it was personal and social, such as going to school and employment, dating and marriage, and leisure. Young people hoped to take opportunities, advance to higher education, have a good job, and live a happy and happy family life in a changed modern society, although the country is not politically stable. "Life Weekly" also encouraged these expectations and ideals of young readers and created diverse youth discourses that responded to them.
The first study is related to the view of the capitalist occupation and the attitude of life among the youth discourse led by the "Weekly Weekly". Young people learned and learned the modern knowledge system and scientific way of thinking through vocational education, and aimed at a practical career, an attitude of life suited to capitalist society, and a life pursuing success. At the same time, in order to get a job desired and to succeed in the job, I accepted the attitude of life called 'self-discipline' or 'self-development' required by the modern society, and this was an important axis of the youth discourse. It can be seen that the logic of 'self - development' required by the way of developing individual ability in the Western capitalist society is transformed into the logic of 'self - discipline' in China again in combination with the 'dictum' of Chinese tradition.
The second study is an analysis of contents related to love, marriage and family problems among the readers' Letters of Life Weekly. Love and marriage are the most common problems facing young men, and they are the most pressing problem facing men and women, individuals and families regarding the family system and values in the process of transition from traditional society to modern society . The contents of the reader 's letter are difficult to solve easily in the life of the individual because of pursuit of free love, hope for independent and voluntary marriage, divorce, criticism of the extended family system, and marital life. Looking at the editor's answer to this letter of the reader, the editor has realistic and concrete advice on dating and marriage, even though it has a modern value that the relationship between person and person is a priority. For example, they advise them not to reject the marriage decided by their parents but to meet them first and then decide. On the other hand, the values of love and marriage of ordinary young people are mixed with tradition and modernity, and still have a male - centered attitude. However, through this interaction between the editor and the reader, the young people who were in the confusion of values became the occasion to raise awareness of 'modern individual'.
On the other hand, an important point in analyzing your own letters is that you have your own story in the form of letters. This 'self-narrative' shows that a young man can be a way of becoming a 'modern subject'. The specificity of 'self-narrative' revealed in the reader's letter shows the point that is inconsistent with the universality of the young man who shapes in literature. This is because, compared with the formation of 'modern subject' through literature, It will be an opportunity.