In The Name Of Modernization

Modernization, for China, is a particularly difficult task and particularly complex historical process. In the historical moment of national independence and liberation, all areas behave a simple function, being the tools of national independence and liberation. National independence and liberation or a total mobilization cover all fields, which is a historical necessity. However, after achieving national independence and liberation, the self of all areas of society rendered inevitably, and bound to embark on modernization sooner or later. In this process, when and how to break the path dependence for all areas of society which consciously seek the way to self and walk up the modernization road step by step, is a process that can be observed. Literature is no exception.After the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1976, China set things right on the one hand, opened a new process on the other hand. As far as the field of literature and art, putting things right means restoring the order of Seventeen Years; opening a new process is to bid farewell to the revolutionary modernity which replaced by modernization modernity. This process is full of internal tension. From being Attached to national independence and liberation to being integrated into the social mobilization system, Literature is attached to Four Modernizations in turn which once was a tool of revolution(i.e., literature of workers, peasants and soldiers),and starts to service for the modernization, that is a little relaxed. There was a kind of tension within the system of Seventeen Years: the pursuit for the self of literature and art is irrepressible. In the early stage of “New Period” Literature, encouraging by the modernization discourse, the pursuit gained some legitimacy. However, the literature and art serve for modernization instead of revolution, that is a kind of progress, but a limited progress(still exists as a tool). What to be seen is how the literature find itself(not as a tool, no longer dependent on national political) during introduction of modernist. Literature obtains itself in this special way which brings the potential problem.This paper argues that the national power adjust the policy in the early stage of “New Period” Literature against the modernization ideology. Literature gained some space with the national power’s promise about freedom and without violating the four cardinal principles, but this space is a limited elastic space. Based on the frame of reference for Braudel’s theory of period, observing from the structure and the morphology, after 1985 the basic structure of Chinese literature, the basic morphological have no essential changes. The relatively independent space of Chinese literature, to some extent, is achieved within the forces of self-restraint, self-limiting condition in nearly four decades. Due to the condition of Step back, the so-called autonomy, self and freedom of Chinese literature have to take something missing and absent as a precondition. Similarly, changes of literature in the 1990 s are still some reproduction and variation of the changes in 1985. Thus, the view rather than some sort of synchronic form not the change of view help us dispel the evil spirit which is puzzled by time, remove the illusion of progress, puzzled evolution, and learn more about the stipulation behind the form.Based on the above understanding, this article focused on how the literature get rid of the shackles and find itself gradually in the early stage of “New Period”. Through research on literary controversy, events, etc. This article discussed how the literary space and the self is slowly generated within the “modernization consensus”.The basic contents of each chapter are as follows:The first chapter focuses on the establishment of the “modern consensus” formation and modernization discourse resources in the early stage of “New Period”.The second chapter discusses that the ruling party made new commitments and statute to the literary policies at the platform of the modernization background.The third chapter discussed how the literary modernization was required in terms of four modernizations services, that is “backdoor listing” for literature self.The fourth chapter explores the process of generating of literary space where involved a lot of power taking the example of “If I Were Real” and several other controversial works, screenplay “unrequited love”Chapter V explores how literature get the self through the introduction of “Modernist”. Under the slogan of modernization, literature can learn from Modernist form. The introduction of modernist by the stripping of form and content, bring a certain amount of artistic autonomy objectively, but also a potential problem for literature.