yanqing

//Yanqing// Genre
//Yanqing// means elaborate feelings. The genre is melodramatic, the writings are filled with descriptions of love, money and women. It was popular genre which dramatized its depictions of modern Shanghai. It prospered throughout the Republican era. //Yanqing// was developing under the pressure of warlord rule, the May Fourth New Cultural Movement, the Nationalist Government's revolutionary ideology, the Japanese occupation and the civil war. Successful Writers include: Mu Shiying, Shao Xunmei, Zhang Henshui and Gun Mingdao

Works Cited:
Jiang, Jin. "Modernity East and West: Melodrama and //Yanqing// in Shanghai's Popular Culture." //Frontiers of History in China.// 2,2: 234-253.