The Nationality and Cosmopolitanism of Modern Chinese Literary Tradition

Abstract

Since the twentieth century, Chinese literary theory has manifested strong cosmopolitanism and nationality, presenting a modern tradition different from the classical literary tradition. The direction of literary tradition is an important path to continue the tradition and build a modern tradition of literary theory. Based on the world perspective, tracing the historical lineage of aesthetic research and literary practice, and scrutinizing the complex changes of Chinese literary theories in the world’s literary theories are important content for the genesis of national literary theories nowadays. On the one hand, it is important to carefully review and sort out the discourse system on which the Chinese literary tradition has been based for the past one hundred years, so as to continue the essential spirit of the literary tradition. On the other hand, it is important to re-explore the way of occurrence of the literary tradition and the vitality in the discourse paradigm, so as to provide impetus for the modernization and internationalization of the modern Chinese literary theory.