城市是现代生活的中心,对城市形象的书写与认识出现在很多媒体话语中。考察上海的初高中现行的两套语文的选文,发现其对城市形象的书写存在着三种倾向:一种受到现实主义传统影响,把城市视作资本主义、资产阶级的同构物,因而将城市指向革命的对象;第二种把遥远的乡村视作诗意栖居的理想场所,而把自己长期生活的城市视作其对立面,这种书写倾向往往既无视城乡的真实情况,也无助于城乡问题的解决;第三种是以“他者”的身份书写城市,即以冷漠的眼光打量、以调侃的口吻描述自己赖以生存的城市,不利于城市文化的建构与认同。语文教材是强制传播的媒介,教材的价值导向对学生的认知行为,包括对社会、城市的认知以及文化认同会产生重要影响,对此,建议教材除了从传统的政治倾向和表达特点等角度衡量教材选文以外,还应该增加文化考量的角度,使语文教材更具有现代意识。 City is the center of modern life. The writing and understanding of city image appear in many media discourses. Examining the existing two-language Chinese essay in junior high schools in Shanghai, we find that there are three tendencies in writing of the city’s image: one is influenced by the tradition of realism and considers the city as a capitalist and bourgeois homogeneity, thus The second is to point out the remote villages as the ideal place for poetic dwelling and regard their long-lived cities as their antitheses. Such tendency of writing often neglects both the urban and rural realities and does not help The solution to urban and rural problems; the third is to write the city in the identity of “others ”, that is to look indifferently to the city, to ridicule to describe their own survival of the city is not conducive to the construction and identity of urban culture. Chinese teaching materials are the medium of compulsive communication, and the value guidance of teaching materials has an important influence on students’ cognitive behavior, including social and urban cognition and cultural identity. In addition, the recommended textbooks should be based on the traditional political orientation and expression characteristics In addition to measuring the elective texts of the textbooks, we should also increase the perspective of cultural considerations and make the textbooks more modern-day.