Compared with vision，auditory offers more direct and real urban experience to the people in residential space. The modern writers' writing on the “sound of Shanghai city” in their city expressions offers a social historical-material，breaking the domination of vision，and keeping a multifold soundscape of Shanghai，which presents the imbalance and instability of urban modernity，spatial politics and the mentality of daily life in the Second World War. The listening and writing of some writers such as Lu xun and Eileen Chang can be regarded as a kind of active and critical auditory practice.