Her cultural imagination about Shanghai is based on the "recreated" metropolitan space—residence, bedrooms, apartments, tramcars, movie theaters, etc.

Mainly examining the developing background of modern Chinese literary regulation, this paper considers that new-styled education, mass media and metropolitan space provide substantial basis on social culture for the formation of modern Chinese literary regulation, and give impetus to modern writers professionalization and establishment on the system of po.

His text narrative style contains two stages: narrates the city and folk surfacely and rebuilds the modern culture deeply.

Agglomeration and diffusion have been proposed to be a principal investigation on the study of metropolitan space evolution.