Abstract: The cultural memory of Shanghai style literature, on the one hand, is the construction of a nostalgic Shanghai with specific memories, such as new utensils, daily life, social worldly affairs and so on, as in Lives of Shanghai Singsong Girls; on the other hand, it is a kind of aesthetic construction of nostalgic memory of Shanghai. Nostalgia is the value recognition and aesthetic imagination based on memories. The value recognition and aesthetic imagination of Lives of Shanghai Singsong Girls and Shanghai style literature towards Shanghai’s intertextual memories not only indicate that Lives of Shanghai Singsong Girls is the starting point of nostalgic Shanghai in Shanghai style literature, but also present the cultural memory of Shanghai style literature, what’s more, it opens up a paradigm research of memory imitation for analyzing the aesthetic internal relationship of literature texts.

Key words: Shanghai style literature; cultural memory; Lives of Shanghai Singsong Girls; nostalgic writing