Anti-modern Modernity: The Wrong Road Of Rewriting Literature History

It can be said that the eighties' "Rewriting Literary History" campaign represented by "twenty-first century Chinese literature theory" in its modernization narrative literature saw the painful lessons had brought about by the suppression of politics of Chinese left-wing literature on literature in the twentieth century, however, such literature fully integrated into the "pre-modern" areas, it is an embodiment of thinking of "Western-centrism", which has overlooked the modernity question in China's complex curve, resulting in a certain kind of "rupture" picture in literary history. Since the nineties, using the new "modern reflection" theory of resources "to rewrite literature history" actually appeared in the three dimensions of research, of which, the rising of history view of the New Left literary is particularly compelling. The New Left refers the so-called "socialist realism" from 1942 to 1976 as "anti-modern modernity" literature, under the name of "modern reflection", and highly affirms this kind of literature and its dominant position is reasonable. The author believes that the so-called Mao Zedong era's "anti-modern modernity", in essence, is a kind of strange hybrid of radical modernism and conservative pre-modernism. This concept contains enormous paradox and historical predicament, and "anti-modern modernity" literature is just the projection of this paradox radical modernism and conservative pre-modernism on the form of literature. The problem of The New Left lies in their non-reflection on the concept of "anti-modern modernity", and without any awareness about the inner entanglement and difficulties, and therefore, the using of concept relapse into a typical "big concept superstition." This article consider, for the eighties "Rewriting Literary History" movement scores and limitations, in sights and not, there have a lot of articles making analysis of it. As for the process of "Rewriting Literary History" since nineties, the rising of new leftist literary history, because they are still underway, and the lack of sufficient theoretical distance, result in the lack of systematic, in-depth theoretical analysis. The author believes that the new leftist literary history has brought us a new vision of literary studies, but also brought many problems. Today, we are able to make a preliminary analysis and summery on the appearance of literary history, and its insights and its out of sights, and its theoretical significance and logical difficulties, so as to expect the statement of literary history can have a healthier direction. It should be noted that the problem of new left literature history is not the only problem appeared at the process of "Rewriting Literature History" since the nineties, and point out its problem does not mean its opposite statement is correct. The author just believes that this new trend is a tendency which is more theoretical and practical significance, and should be given more timely and theoretically response...