Modernity and 20th Century Chinese Literature

Author: Wen Fengqiao (Editor)
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Publish Date: 2004-06-01
Features: Modernity, as a theoretical perspective, research perspective, and research methodology, has long been used in literary studies. However, its widespread application in the study of 20th-century Chinese literature has sparked little debate about whether literature possesses modernity. The key lies in the impact and changes modernity, as a research perspective, brings to the study of 20th-century Chinese literature—specifically its ability to open up new research fields and provide fresh research approaches.
Encouragingly, in recent years, the application of modernity as a research perspective has yielded a large number of sharp and innovative research outcomes, uncovering new issues that traditional research perspectives and methodologies struggle to identify. In a sense, this has broadened the research horizon of 20th-century Chinese literature, new growth points in its study, and enriched the existing research findings.
What is particularly pleasing is that as this research deepens, the topic of modernity and 20th-century Chinese literature is increasingly attracting widespread interest and attention from the academic community. The articles included in this book are primarily selected from perspectives such as the value norms of modernity in 20th-century Chinese literature, the overall characteristics of modernity in 20th-century Chinese literature, the study of 20th-century Chinese writers through the lens of modernity, and the history of 20th-century Chinese literature from a modernity perspective. These papers represent some of the most representative studies on 20th-century Chinese literature from the perspective of modernity in recent years.