Study On Historical Conception In The History Works Of Chinese New Literature From 1950s To 1980s

Works of literary History could reveal the author's historical conception. Although the study of literary history has become hot and important since re-writing literary history, the study on the works of literary history and the conception of literary history is still a weak realm in the present study. So the paper did some research on some new works of literary history in order to seek the new history conception. In a certain times, different political idea, social context and the writer's different narration to the same history or literary affairs in the same age made the historical narration very different, for the narration of literary history would be bothered by some factors, including a certain politics, society and cultures. This phenomenon was very obvious in the history narration of literature from 1950s to 1980s because of the frequent changes of society. The paper discussed the typical works of new literary history which were created in the Main Land, Hong Kong, Taiwan and the other countries so as to analyze the structural characteristic, patterns of literary history and the different literary figures of modernist school in different context. Then the paper analyzed the factors which could affect the history writing of new literature so that the complex relationship among history writing, ideology and social culture could be revealed clearly. The purpose of all the discussions was just to find out the new history conception of new literature. Introduction concluded the reasons why the author wanted to choose the topic as the paper's main content, the study methods, modernist school's certain meaning realm, the course of its forming, literary situation and the history significance of literature in 1930s. In this part, the author discussed different new literary figures from 1950s to 1980s through the figures existing before 1950s.Chapter 1 to chapter 7 was the paper's main body, which was divided in two parts. Part one made the works of literary history in the Main Land as the study target. The works written by one or more than one, the history tendency from "one" to "collection", the different conception of literary history and the modernist school's history conception in different literary figures were the main contents of Part one.Chapter 1 discussed how the political ideology was written into new literary history. Mao Zedong's literary thought was used as the guidance of literary history in Zhou Yang's The Outline of the Lecture on New Literature Movement. The author discussed how Mao Zedong's literary thought became to the guidance of literary history conception.In chapter 2, Wang Yao tried his best to reveal Mao Zedong's literary thought in his conception of literary history when narrating the literary theory, but he also believed that literary character was the most import element in his conception of literary history when criticizing the literary creation. For instance, such conception was used to criticize the school of new moon and modernity's works or creative movement. Because of this conception of literary history, Wang Yao was criticized in some political movements.Chapter 3 stressed on Ding Yi and Liu Shousong's conceptions of literary history, discussed how their conceptions of new literary history became to conceptions of new literary history and how the main ideology gave influence to their history narration. The discourse of realism of socialism could be found in their history works, which was the obvious characteristic of their history conception. This kind of literary history works were written by single one, but the personnel conception of literary history was controlled by ideology. Chapter 4 stressed on the collective narration the conception of new literary history. The works of new literary history discussed above belonged to personnel writing, and this kind of writing could not continue any more in the new times, which was the main reason why the collective writing could appear latter. The first instance of collective writing was students' collective writing, the typical one of which written by the students in Chinese Department, Fu Dan University. The works of new literary history could be looked on as the revolutionary history or the fighting history of the thought of literature and arts, for the movement and class fighting controlled the literary history's narration. These made the narration of new literature meet some troubles. Tang Tao's works of literary history was the scholar's writing. To some extend, the collective writing of scholar's was the correction of students' collective writing. But from Tang Tao's works of literary history, we may find some marks of ideology, such as discussion taking place of history and analyzing from the viewpoint of class. Tang Tao's conception of literary history made the modernist school become the adverse current in the literary history.Part two employed the typical three works of literary history written in Taiwan, Hong Kong and America as the research target to seek the different conception of literary history.Chapter 5 stressed on Zhou Jin's Chinese New Literary History . Like the works in the Main Land, Zhou Jin's conception of literary history was affected by ideology deeply which was "San Min Zhu Yi" and nationalism. This conception of literary history was used to narrate the writers, works and the modernist school's figures.Chapter 6 stressed on C.T.HSIA(Xia Zhiqing)'s A History of Modern Chinese Fictions, although the woks has some bias of ideology, it was different from the woks in Taiwan and the Main Land because it put emphasis on the literature itself, and it used the western cultural value and artistic standard to narrate the literary history. This conception of literary history made he use the western modernist school's artistic standard to observe Chinese modernist school. Chapter 7 discussed about Sima Changfeng's Chinese New Literary History. Nationalism and the pure literary conception were the key words to understand Sima Changfeng's history conception. At the same time, emotion, language, poetry, drawing was the main factors. This conception of literary history was also used to narrate the literary figures of the modernist school. Sima Changfeng's conception of literary history had the close literary position, and had the intense relationship with Xia Zhiqing's conception of literary history.In conclusion, the author pointed out the new Chinese literature's history would be different because of different territory, which showed that conception of literary history was not still and abstract, it would be affected by some complex factors like ideology and academic system. Re-writing literary history would last forever because different conception of literary history may had the literary history have different appears. So Re-writing literary history is not only to find out new literary materials, revalue writers, works or literary school, but also the theoretic matter of how to know the nature of literature.