Acceptance Of Populism And Its Influence On Modern Chinese Literature And Literary Criticism

As one of the principal ideology behind the modern Chinese revolutionary activity, Populism came from Russian Populism and Rousseauism, and also with some part of the traditional thought of China, such as Confucianism and Mohism.Russian Populism is the main source of Chinese Populism .It has four parts within: the adoration of peasantry, the "going to the people" movement, singing high for the country and despising the culture of city, anti-capitalist.With critical acceptance of Populism , and mixture with the other thoughts like Anarchism Didacticism and Nationalism, in the course of the Modern Chinese Literature and Literary Criticism , Populism is not only the one of direct policy but also the ideaistic resource to leading the intelligentsia of the age to go to the people and get more enlightenment from people. Therefore , the contradiction between the thought of enlighten and save oneself from the morality of people's standard affected the intelligentsia ,they tried to across a great gulf fixed with themselves and the masses, and to experience the life of people . From these endeavor, the Modern Chinese Literature and Literary Criticism presents several characters: converting into the morality of people , learning from the form of folklore, animadverting on the culture of city, singing high for the construction of country . At the same time, Chinese Populism changed the appearance of elite , and impacted on the form of the road to leading the modern intelligentsia to creating in a popular style.Nowadays, the New-Populism and Cultural Populism bring the new trends to Chinese literature and literary criticism .