The Construction of Urban Domestic Cultures in Republican Shanghai:Focuses on Family Journals
During the Republican era,Shanghai witnessed the emergence of a batch of commercial and popular family journals which were closely related to the rising new urban family form under industrialization and urbanization.As significant shapers of urban domestic cultures,these journals engaged in informative and lively discussions on urban daily life,including residence,diet,entertainment,and etc..Numerous modern concepts and values subtly entered thousands of urban households in trivial daily ways.The modern urban family concept,centered around housewives and built upon spousal relationships,emerged as a new ideolo-gy.For housewives,the urban family served as both a harbor and a constraint.Family journals played a crucial role in constructing modern lifestyles and gendered emotional family structures,contributing substan-tially to urban family culture.