Main purpose of the essay is to discuss the characteristics of the everyday life and consumer culture in Nanjing and Shanghai during the 1950s by WU Zhuoliu's novels, ＂Nanjing Za Gan＂ (Random Thoughts on Nanjing) and ＂Orphan of Asia＂. Firstly, in his novels we can see the common people's everyday life in these two big cities and the life forms of female students, and modern gril. Among all the characters, female students had multiple implications in near term Chinese culture and can be said was a very important image, representing modern Chinese woman had begun to get involved in the public fields. And the image of modern woman not only was a symbal of moernity at the time but also was one characteristic of the consumer culture. Then, we can also prove the hedonism in Shanghai and the consumer culture in the beginning of the twentieth century from WU Zhuoliu's descriptions on Shanghai's public arenas like department stores, entertaining places, and the concessions. This also reflected a facet of Chinese modernity. Next, we were able to glance at modern China's social outlook from the common Nanjing people's complicated consumer culture, such as bathroom culture, citizen's gambling habit, and movie addition, entertaining business in Nanjing during the wartime, audients' Eastern-Western blended tastes, and the phenomenon of bristly theatres and cinemas. The writer concluded lastly that the characteristics of the everyday life and consumer culture in Nanjing and Shanghai areas was the co-existence of modern thinking and leftovers from the old feudal system. In the description of the common people's social appearances and general pop cultures, we peeped into modern China that was confronting the run-in period in between tradition and modernity.