Rediscovery About Earthbound China

Modern Chinese Literature came into being and developed in such a historical and cultural context that the country was eager and at the same time forced to modernize itself. Thus the westernization and modernization once dominated, directed and even restrained its literature. As early as during late the Qing Dynasty, some Chinese writers formed and developed a west-style modern narrative way and in the early 20th century, such writers as Lu Xun, Feiming and Shen Congwen also developed a narrating way which they aimed at breaking through the restraints of West Modernity. While they were doing this, their objective was still obscure but their existence made Chinese literature an extending and expanding one. It is also delighted that in the history of modern Chinese ideology, some thinkers, though coming from different social stratum and different disciplines, reflected in their writings the similar thoughts with Lu Xun, Feiming and Shen Congwen , that is, the pursuit of surpassing the west modernity and reshaping Chinese-style narrating ways and practices. These thinkers, together with the writers such as Lu Xun, Feiming and Shen Congwen co-influenced and co-supplemented and together developed and completed a peculiar modern Chinese-style narrating way which is essential for us to better understand the implication of modernization at present.