Abstract：According to the characters’ language in The Sing-song Girls of Shanghai， the factors that contribute to the “softness” of Suzhou dialect are as follows： the voice of “bu” which means negation is compressed， the reduplication of words is flexible and diverse， many tones and modal words are used， and expressions in daily life are elegant. This Suzhou dialect shapes different characters with different personalities. As a whole， the language of The Sing-song Girls of Shanghai has the following characteristics： the coolness and hardness of traditional vernacular narration and the tenderness and softness of the characters who use Suzhou dialect complement each other； the absorption of new time markers and new terms for objects reveals new linguistic factors. From the perspective of the transformation of literary language， The Sing-song Girls of Shanghai can be regarded as a masterpiece of the Wu dialect ， but not as a representative work of the modern transformation of Chinese literature.
文贵良. 文学苏白的“地域神味”——论韩邦庆《海上花列传》的汉语诗学[J]. 华中师范大学学报（人文社会科学版）, 2022, 61(1): 90-99.
Wen Guiliang. The “Regional Flavor” of Suzhou Dialect in Literature——On the Chinese Poetics of Han Bangqing’s The Sing-song Girls of Shanghai. journal1, 2022, 61(1): 90-99.
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