Chinese Literature Under The Concept Of "World Literature"

The Chinese literature has a unique look in History of World Literature compiled by the Gorky Institute of World Literature.History of World Literature constructed the concept of "world literature" from the Soviet perspective.This concept breaks through the previous recognition of "world literature" and is supported by historical typology.It believes that "world literature" not only has the comprehensiveness of region,time and subject,but also attaches importance to the relationship between tribal / ethnic literature,but also based on the social history and the orderly evolution of the human heart and human nature has become a changing whole with regularity of development.This law is externalized into an orderly replacement of literary genres and literary schools.The development of society and the pursuit of perfection in literature itself have become the driving force for the development of "world literature".Taking the concept of "world literature" as an entry point to study the Chinese literature in History of World Literature.This is mainly from two aspects: the compilation of Chinese literature and the relationship between Chinese and foreign literature.History of World Literature uses time as a clue to put the specific evolution of Chinese literature into the state of "balance-unbalance-new balance" in the development process of world literature.It has experienced two stages of development in ancient literature and medieval literature.Therefore,the evolutionary appearance of Chinese literature exhibits characteristics that echo these three states and two stages of development.The History of World Literature focuses on the relationship between Chinese literature and other national literature.Under the guidance of its "world literature" concept,it uses the influence and connection of literature and the comparative perspective of historical typology to explore the role and development status of Chinese literature within and outside the literary region.Taking the regularity of the development of world literature as an entry point has affirmed the contribution of Chinese literature to the development process of world literature.The vision and method of studying Chinese literature under the concept of "World Literature" in History of World Literature expands the thinking of Chinese literature research.