Historian’s Position, Sound Department, Described The History Methods

Focusing on historian’s opinions, narrative voices and narrative plots, this dissertation combed tens of Chinese literature works published home and abroad in the past 5 decades, and aimed to sort out the compiling rules of the contemporary Chinese literature history.The beginning era of the contemporary Chinese literature history started from the establishment of new China to the end of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. The historians at that time compiled the literature history of the new China with strong political ideology, and their works aimed to promote the image of the new China and propagandize its characteristics and atmosphere. To promote the image of the new China, historians were interested in elements characterized as new, such as new historic origin, new writers and their new publications, new literature categories, and new policy on literature and arts and so on. Their editorial-style writing was full of political language monologues, which is known as authoritative, appealing, passionate and agitating. They frankly showed their political standing of mainstream ideology by using "we" in their writings, while notes showing citation and various explanations were reduced, or even disappeared. This political language monologue writing style originated from their age, education and class recognition. The historians melt their own voice into mainstream ideology by using "We" instead of "I" in their writing. As influenced by the compiling of the Chinese new literature history, and the literally understanding of Marx’s theory on class confliction and social change, the narrating plots of the literature history at that time were essentially identical: The literature of new China is making a great progress through the battling between the Two Routes, and went to the extreme through suppressing other competing history narrating plots.The developing era of Chinese literature history is between the end of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution and the middle of 1990s. Historian at this time period documented the literature history objectively and aimed to present the literature history completely by disclosing the truth and discipline of literature history, indicated by the reevaluation of the literature history in the past 17 years, the confrontation of literature history of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution and the increase of literature writings. Responding to history thoughts of Marxism about truth, historians began to be interested in disclosing history discipline and document literature history based on their styles, topics and thoughts, and reached their maturity. The contemporary Chinese literature began to become an official subject and the narrative voice of literature history evolved to knowledge language monologue. As the result of the step by step classroom education, the clarity of knowledge and discipline, and the routine investigation at the beginning of the subject, literature history writing became methodical, and the language used became neutral, consequently lead to identical literature history writings. During this time period, historians also wrote history staging, history evaluation and history narrative plots, which were stipulated by political propaganda. The authoritative of history narrative plot was acquired through criticism and stipulation, for instance, the criticism to the "Sixteen Years" posted by《Time’s Reports》in 1982.From the middle of 1990s to now, the Chinese contemporary history literature compiling entered its exploring era. The objectified literature history and personalized literature history coexisted and thrived together. In the personalized literature history, historians dedicated to raise their individual voices as they were documenting literature history, thus their works are characterized as pluralism and individuation in terms of compiling style, text selection, literature illumination, literature history concept, and language style. This is because the appearance of new historians of the contemporary Chinese literature history, who spent their teenage during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution and entered college at the new era. The way they wrote literature history is influence by their own life experience and western history thoughts as well, especially by Subjective History and Annales school of history. They established a new paradigm of literature history study through the slogan of twenty century Chinese literature and literature history rewriting, and lead to the pluralism and personalization of their literature writings. The text of literature history at this time period consists of voices of historians on behalf of different school of thoughts. The history literatures is similar a brainstorm hosted by the historians and encompasses historians conversations. The understandings of historic events of literatures are not identical anymore among the historians and require the readers to make their own judgments by reorganization and ordering. Meanwhile, dividing literature history and history narrating plots became personalized. The examples include the symphony harmonizing heroism and humanity by Xiaolun Feng, the "All-in-One" concept proposed by Zhicheng Hong, the transition from "co-name" to "nameless" by Shihe cheng, and the interaction between individual and mainstream. It was also observed that historians discuss and compiles the contemporary history using modern theory framework.."Their" literature history means, on one hand, historians writing the literature history are foreigners and their writings, on the other, are history literatures of district or country other than their owns. Those historians insist to confront the history with emphasis on the literariness and with strong ideology as well. Their literature writing consists of the conversations between two different literatures or cultures.Manshu Lin and Du Boni are the examples who are successful in staging and narrating plot of literature history. It was believed by Manshu Lin that the history of the 17-year literature is the history of authors and theorists fighting against doctrinarism. Du Boni summarized the 20 century Chinese literature into three history narrating plots: the marching to the new literature, the returning to the tradition and the reevaluation of modernity.