Ups and Downs of Contemporary Commerce in Shanghai and Formation and Development of Shanghai Culture;

The characteristic Shanghai culture is affected by Wuyue culture and western culture has been gradually formed in the process of the mutual confluence of oriental civilization and western civilization.

With the development of history, Shanghai culture, as an important regional culture, is the result of infiltrating and integrating Wuyue culture with Western culture, and it is commercial, open and personalized.

The design skills of these gardens were affected by Shanghai-style culture.

The paper approaches to the relation of Shanghai-style culture and Shanghai-style architecture, states the features of Shanghai-style architecture, and points out how this style be reasonably inherited and developed at the present time.

By the development of Shanghai urban culture, we can realized that Jiangnan immigrants, as the majority of all, were obviously the communicators of Jiangnan traditional culture, and make a great contribution to the urban spirit of Shanghai, the life attitude, consume perception and aesthetic sentiment of local citizens, also the formation of Shanghai-style culture.

While at the age of globalization the soft strength becomes an important target of measuring the strength of nations, the Shanghai style culture turns into the resource of the “soft strength” of the Shanghai city.

In construction of Shanghai culture, it is important to inherit the historical tradition and develop the international influence of the Shanghai style culture.

At the present time, the Shanghai style culture has produced a strong international influence, chiefly, on overseas Chinese communities, surrounding countries and western developed countries.

This paper presents a systematic review of Shanghai school literature studies, outlining the "debate between Beijing school literature and Shanghai school literature" in the 1930s and new advances of Shanghai school literature since the new era.

The text is on the basis of the culture researching theory such as consuming culture and modern research, from the narrating methods, observing character points and feeling life’s ways of Shanghai school literature, especially the deep analyzing about its relationship with the city’s life and consuming culture in the aesthetic form.

As a matter of course, Biographies of Prostitutes of Shanghai, signaling the beginning of Shanghai school literature, has become one of the hot research topics.