自20世纪70年代开始，有关中国近代公共领域的研究成果层出不穷。近代中国的公共领域并非单一整体，报纸构建的中介公共领域也有主流与边缘之分。近代上海小报在中国报刊史上占有重要地位。本文分析近代上海小报关于“驱逐棚户”问题的报道，发现小报构建了一个另类公共领域。通过定义新问题、纳入新角色、建构新话语等方式，近代小报将原本不在主流公众讨论范围之内的“私人问题”重新界定为“公共问题”，发挥着另类公共领域的功能。小报依赖煽动性的修辞，吸引更广泛的读者，建立、维系相似的文化认同，维护着边缘阶层的利益。

Since the 1970s, research results on China’s modern public domain have emerged one after another. The public sphere of modern China is not a single whole. Newspaper, the mediated public sphere, also has the distinction between mainstream and margin. Modern Shanghai tabloids occupy an important position in the history of Chinese newspapers. By defining new problems, incorporating new roles, and constructing new discourses, alternative public sphere defines “private issues” that are not within the scope of mainstream public discussion as “public issues”. The paper analyzes the reports of the modern Shanghai tabloid on the issue of “expulsion shacks” and finds that the modern tabloids have constructed an alternative public domain with a certain class nature, representing the interests of specific classes. Tabloids rely on inflammatory rhetoric to attract a wide audience, establish and maintain similar cultural identity and promote political power.