"Decadence" in Chinese Modern Literature and the Urban Imagination in the Post-May Fourth Era;

The decadence of Shanghai concession and the decaying narrative of the modern literature;

Going back to the historical context,this paper attempts,based on the its emergence,spreading and acceptance,examines the symptoms of the conflicts between the youth themselves and society,the contradictions between desire and moral and the decadent resistance of the youth during the ebb of May 4th Movement.

The Literature of Shanghai School expresses criticism to the historical modernity in its content,and the tendency of decadent aestheticism in its aesthetic character.

Influenced by the ideological trend of the decadent from Europe at the end of the 19th century,decadence became a universal feeling in literary works in the May 4 period.

On the basis of this point,the present paper makes a probe into the root of Yu Da-fu s decadent sentiments.

The decadent sentiments of Su Manshu s.

This article claims that Wen Yiduo s Poem Dead Water is the unity of aestheticism, decadent sentiments and patriotic feeling.

Especially in Oscar Wilde s play-" Salome ", the story of a soothsayer persecuted and put to death because of his outspoken moral courage was changed into a story of hysteria because of repeated frustration and repressed female sexual desire; as such, it is colored with decadence, nevertheless, a necessary moral outcry for a balance between the body and.