开拓空间，兼容并蓄：新加坡华文小报研究 (1925-1929) = BROADENING SPACE AND TAKING EVERYTHING IN IT: A STUDY OF CHINESE TABLOID (1925-1929) IN SINGAPORE

Abstract

This thesis focuses on the production of Singapore Chinese tabloids which peaked in the 1920s. As a result of impact of China?s emerging literary trends in late 1920s, the style of Chinese newspapers? supplement began to change. Numerous pure literature supplements appeared. The whimsical style of composite supplement had been exploited to its fullest. Peak production of Chinese Tabloid (xiaobao) in the late 1920s in Singapore was a substitution of the preposterous and comical style of composite supplement. This way, Chinese Tabloid producers contributed to developing a different and open public space. Chinese intellectuals who took the move from China to Nanyang led to the production of Singapore Chinese Tabloid which peaked in the 1920s. As this movement increased, so did the demands of the Chinese Tabloid, its readership as well as its producers which led to the significant boom of cultural production. This took place during the time when Chinese daily newspaper in Malaya and Singapore was very often intervened by political forces or capitalist manipulation. It was thus against this backdrop that Chinese intellectuals who possessed progressive ideas created Chinese Tabloid as a public space, which was able to disseminate their ideas and beliefs in an unrestrained and free manner.