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Monthly Fiction（小说月报）, also called Xiaoshuo Yuebao orThe Short Story Magazine. It published by The Commercial Press (商务印书馆), the first issue started from July 1910. The Commercial Press was destroyed by January 28 incident and the last issue of Monthly Fiction ended in January 1932. It totally published 22 volumes, 262 issues (including 4 additional issues).

Monthly Fiction has two periods, in early period, from 1910 to 1920, it published "Mandarin Duck and Butterfly"(鸳鸯蝴蝶派) style novels. "Mandarin Duck and Butterfly School" was one of the most popular popular books in the literary field before the New Culture Movement, which make Fiction Monthly very popular among readers. Yuanyang(Chinese ducks) and Hudie (butterflies) are in pairs, which are the symbols of lovers. However, it was critiqued by May Fourth writers because it represents of old feudal thoughts and Chinese literature need revolution, "Mandarin Duck and Butterfly School" became the opposite of new culture revolution. During the Period of May fourth Movement, When Chinese novels changed from traditional to modern, they always broke with the old national forms in order to conform to the new forms of the world trend.

Mao Dun was assigned to work as the main editor in 1921, he started innovation of magazine during the period of May Forth Movement, it promoted New Literature and published realistic literature translated foreign novels. Mao Dun 茅盾, “Xiaoshuo xinchao lan xuanyan” 小説新潮欄宣言. P51

It was popular before and after innovation until 1930s.

Publication Background

Zhou Zuoren, Chen Duxiu and New Fiction old fiction

Mao Dun was assigned to work as the main editor of Fiction Monthly

It is because

Traditional styled literature  "Mandarin Duck and Butterfly School"(鸳鸯蝴蝶派) was considered as feudal

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 Notable contributors: 

Mao Dun茅盾/Shen Yanbing沈雁冰: 1921-1922 thesis paper： https://escholarship.org/content/qt51b8p8mk/qt51b8p8mk.pdf

When the new reformed version of The Short Story Magazine was published in January, Mao Dun laid out his ideas more explicitly on how to marry the two literatures together. The core of his argument here is an adaptation of literary evolution. For Mao Dun and many others at the time, just as social Darwinism suggested an orderly progression of society, and a fatal end to those that fell behind in this progress, there was an equally clear progression in literature that could be seen in the west, which had “evolved” further. Mao Dun’s progression was as follows

Zheng Zhenduo郑振铎:1923-1927; 1929-1932 Due to 412 Event(四一二政变), Zheng went to Europe in 1927.

Ye Shengtao叶圣陶: 1927-1929 no thesis paper,

References


 * 1) Gimpel, Denise (1999). "A Neglected Medium: The Literary Journal and the Case of "The Short Story Magazine" (Xiaoshuo yuebao), 1910-1914". Modern Chinese Literature and Culture. 11 (2): 53–106. ISSN 1520-9857.
 * 2) Chen Y. (2018) Xiaoshuo yuebao (1921–1931) as a Cultural Mediator of Small Literatures in China. In: Roig-Sanz D., Meylaerts R. (eds) Literary Translation and Cultural Mediators in 'Peripheral' Cultures. New Comparisons in World Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78114-3_5