Modern Chinese Literary Under The Tension Of Modernity And Anti-modernity

The modernization of Chinese Literature is the outcome of social change and cultural transformation in modern society, combining with problems, contradictions and perplexties in this transformation. In modern China, in the conflicts and collision between Western and Chinese civilization, Chinese literature is faced with two different options from very beginning owe to different characteristics of Chinese and West?rn literature and culture. On one hand, the transplant of Western literary idea. On the other hand, the modern transformation of Chinese native experiences. These two options form two different modes of understanding and expression in modern Chinese literary history, and they both have achieved great success. As a result, we should devote same attention to these two different trends.In sum, the May Fourth New Culture School belongs to the first option and Xueheng School Jiayin School and " Yuanyanghudie School "belong to the second one. The former creates large number of works.Holding the banner of the "down with the Confucian shop" and the "revaluation of everything", adopting the doctrine of "take in", the first school translates a lot of western culture and creates a large number of literary masterpieces. The works and literary theories of this school not only embodies the distinct spirit of "modernity", but also conform to the mainstream to construct modern Chinese culture. The latter school, on the contrary, holds that Chinese literature should not abandon the traditional cultural heritage ofancient China. Consequently, Chinese literature should create native Chinese culture based on her native culture, and drawing on the essence of Western culture and Chinese culture as well. The literary thoery and practice of this school do not demonstrate an obvious characteristics of modernity. To some extent, they are anti-modernity. For this, the latter school has been ignored by literary history for a long time. For a long time, these two literary orientations have different fate. The "May 4 New Culture School?" which inclines to Western literature is always the favarite of literary history while the latter school which inclines to traditional Chinese culture is ignored by literary historian."Rewriting literary history" was a call raised by scholars in Shanghai in the late 1980s. However, this rewriting of literary history is always thinking about how to write the new literary history and how to erase the political dust tainting the new literary itself rather than how to rewrite the modern literature in a all-round way so as to reveal modern literature in its true colors.In the late 20th century, there occurred a thorough reexamination and revaluation of literary history with the advent of the era of globalization. Under the circumstances, some scholars ponder over the problem of the development of Chinese literature and culture. Some scholars even hold an extreme view that Chinese literary theory has lost its own sound in the 20th century. These may sound biased to some extent. However, the articulations of "homeless" and "aphasia" seem to remind us that we should not neglect the literary creations which are more close to tradition and far from modernity in modern literature if we want to rewrite literary history.China's modernity is accompanied by the impact of Western culture. To some extent, we may say that modernity is "westernization". However, when we value and comment on the modernity of literature, we should not only refer to the stipulation of the modernity with Western concept, but also think about the reality of the development of Chinese literature. Therefore, I agree on Wang Hui's idea that the research on China's modernity should be based on "interculture"? That isto say, when we reflect on the modernity of Chinese literature, we must realize that in the course of China's modernity, there is filled with the factor of initiation of culture?. In the dissertation, the author holds that the school which attaches to the tradition is anti-modernity. This is the idea of Western modernity. The author...