现在有关中国近现代城市史这一领域的著作非常多,其中在城市文化转型的动力这一问题上提出了不少重要的历史观点。一个研究中国城市的重要的学术团体对于市民社会或公共领域的发展,抑或是城市文化对于日益流行的公众的政治参与意识和民主观念及组织形式的影响程度提出了质疑。正因如此,城市,尤其是上海这样一个城市,被视为是一种特殊的近代化现象产生的熔炉,作为与脱胎于欧洲模式的近代化模式相对应的中国经验很自然地被冠之于“中 Nowadays, there are a lot of books on the field of modern Chinese city history, and many important historical points of view have been put forward on the issue of the impetus of urban cultural transformation. An important academic body studying Chinese cities questioned the development of civil society or the public sphere, or the influence of urban culture on the increasingly popular public’s sense of political participation and democratic concepts and organizational forms. It is for this reason that a city such as Shanghai, in particular Shanghai, is regarded as a special melting pot for the emergence of modern phenomena. As a Chinese experience corresponding to the modern model born out of the European model, it is naturally enshrined in ”in