Tattler was founded primarily by Liang Yuchun 梁遇春, Zhou Zuoren, Lu Xun, Lin Yutang, Qian Xuantong, Yu Pingbo, Liu Bannong, and others.

The published works generally addressed serious and substantial matters with a light touch, using simple and clear language, without regard to convention and often with a biting style.

It was specifically a protest against the Japanese warship shelling of Taku Forts on the 12th; and was also generally vociferous about the unequal treaties with foreign powers.

Government troops and police shot into the unarmed crowd and killed 47 students (including some at the Women's Normal University), also wounding over 200.

This came to be known as the March 18 Massacre The Tattler contributors promptly produced a stream of emotional and biting articles for several months.

Early Republic of China journals such as "Contemporary Review" along with "La Jeunesse" (founded 1915), "Creation Quarterly" (1921), "Tattler" (November 1924) and others played a critical role in modernizing the Chinese written language.

Their goal was a different revolution, that of the written language, changing it from the classical to the spoken vernacular and so bringing it closer to the general population.

Cheng Fangwu of "Creation Quarterly" set up the Red Army education system for the Long March and beyond.

The pagoda was on the south shore of the West Lake in Hangzhou, a glorious golden sunset site for over a thousand years.

Lu Xun wrote a short essay about the pagoda and its collapse, with unmistakable irony mirroring the misguided policies of the Beiyang government which was cracking down on dissidents in order to support the status quo.

Lu Xun begins by writing that his grandmother told him once upon a time a man called Xu Xian rescued two snakes, one white and one green.