Shanghai's Fashion During Republic Period

The goal of this research is to describe and analyze Shanghai’s fashion during Republic Period. Shanghai’s fashion during Republic Period plays a special role in fashion history of China and Shanghai history. In the paper, three aspects including the fashion centre of China as well as Far East, men’s fashion and women’s fashion in Shanghai are discussed. The style, textiles, color, decoration and combination of clothing are described. Many costumes from the Clothing Museum at Donghua University and private collections as well as some historical writings, photographs and publications are elucidated and corroborated to give a more detailed description about Shanghai’s fashion during that period.Here are some tentative conclusions. Firstly, Shanghai had always been the fashion center in China even Far East during Republic Period. Modeng was the main reflection of Shanghai fashion. Secondly, the traditional clothing exerted less influence and was less widely used, some kinds and combinations were out of fashion gradually. The fashion was described to be highly stylized, exquisite and concise. Thirdly, the influence of Western Style was further greater. The fashion in Shanghai was almost synchronous with fashion of Paris. Some western clothing was directly used in daily life and the elements of Western Style had an increasingly wide utilization. Fourthly, the New Chinese Style whose representatives were Qipao and Zhongshan Zhuang appeared and popularized in Shanghai. The fashion of Qipao changed frequently. Finally, the fashion in Shanghai called Shanghai Style could be summarized fashionable, exquisite, rapidly changeable, which is harmonious of both ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign.

现代中国“生活样式”的浮世绘——师陀小说叙论

师陀在其“芦焚”时期即20世纪30—40年代的小说创作,注目于现代中国城乡“生活样式”的社会生态分析,其观照乡土中国“生活样式”的小说,呈现出一种“反田园诗叙事”的倾向,其解剖现代都市“生活样式”的小说,则表现出一种“反摩登叙事”的倾向。如果说,前一类作品展现了师陀抒情与叙事的杰出才华,后一类作品则凝聚了师陀深入解析人性蜕变及其心理深度的过人造诣。这些独特的成就为师陀在中国现代小说史以至文学史上赢得了重要的地位。