Why is the base camp of Chinese popular literature in Shanghai?

The base camp of Chinese popular literature is in Shanghai for the following reasons:

With its superior geographical position, Shanghai became the fastest-growing modern city in modern China, and gradually formed its unique cultural form and connotation. First of all, the establishment of commercial culture is the basis of the formation of Shanghai culture. After the opening of Shanghai, British Consul Baffo established the first concession in the Bund area north of Shanghai County. Then, Shanghai successively established French Concession and American Concession.

The unique geographical environment provides a foundation for the development of Shanghai. Shanghai has rapidly developed into a prosperous immigrant city and the richest commodity distribution center in the Yangtze River Delta of China. Shanghai culture is gradually formed in the development of the city, and many factors have played an important role in its formation.

After the opening of Shanghai, it facilitated the entry of western missionaries. Missionaries such as maddox, William Jones Boone, Elijah Coleman Bridgman and Lin Lezhi arrived in Shanghai on 1843, 1845, 1847 and 1868 respectively. In the process of missionary work, western science and culture have also been spread.

Third, Shanghai's cultural tradition is the blood of the formation of Shanghai culture. In the process of developing from Shanghai Pu to a metropolis, Shanghai has its own achievements and traditions in inheriting China's cultural traditions, and there are many achievements that go down in history: Wen Fu by Lu Ji in Wei and Jin Dynasties is China's first masterpiece to explore the inherent laws of literature.

The development of popular literature;

Modern popular literature in China refers to the works that inherit the tradition of ancient novels in China in form, are based on the industrial and commercial economic development of metropolis in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, and are created or re-created by literati with the traditional psychological mechanism as the core in content.

It has formed a readership dominated by the general public, which is regarded as spiritual consumer goods and will inevitably reflect their society. A core meaning of Guo Moruo's view is that popular literature has indeed gradually found its own historical position in the relationship with the "market".