At present, the research on the urban public reading mostly adopts the elite perspective and focuses on the reading experience at individual level while the collective mentality and behavior are mostly imagined. This study attempts to discuss the Chinese urban reading in the 1930s and regards the reading process as the interaction and exhibition of lower-and-middle class readers. This study suggests that the reading taste, theme, experience of urban public in the 1920s and 1930s presents salient features, which is related to both material conditions, literacy level and multi-media format as well as interactive network. Therefore, the reading of the urban public should be understood as embedded in this mixed media environment, constantly reconstructing their own sensory experience.