The occurrence and development of Tianjin citizen novels are closely related to the newspaper industry,especially the newspaperman novels that rely on newspapers are the main genre of Tianjin citizen novels during the early stage.Therefore,important novelists who wrote in Tianjin were closely associated with the newspapers,which include Gong Baiyu,Liu Yunruo,Li Shoumin,and so forth.In the 1920s and 1930s,Tianjin citizen novelists continued to emerge,and the number of works surged,forming a Tianjin School of novels based on Tianjin culture.The main genres of Tianjin citizen novels include social romance novels,martial arts novels,story novels,and gangster novels.In the writing of Tianjin citizen novels,the inheritance and breakthrough of traditional novels,and the reference and absorption of new novels are achieved.Compared with the Shanghai citizen novels,they lack modernity and avant-garde.Tianjin's local wharf culture,folk art culture,Tianjin dialect and leased territory culture have a subtle influence on citizen novels.
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