Historical Exploration Of Modern Chinese Romantic Literature

The subject, Historical Exploration of Modern Chinese Romantic Literature, is not to focus on the development of "romantic" literature for forty years in modern China, but pay exclusive attention to emergence of Chinese modern romantic literature from a genetic point of view and from the historical source. In fact, China’s modern romantic literature was formed by absorbing multifaceted civilization resources in a long, complicated historical process. The cultural gene of the modern Chinese romantic literature can be traced back to and heavily involved in Chinese native cultural philosophy, lyric tradition, thought value system and so on,and finally realized the transformation from classic to modern after the long history of the classical Chinese literature. In the late Ming dynasty to Qing dynasty and late Qing dynasty to the early Republic of China, the two specific phases of Chinese contemporary history,"romanticism" experienced a variety of fluctuations from commencement, prosperity, decline to interruption and rebirth. Special importance should be attached to the relationship between modern Chinese literary history and modern Chinese romantic literature because its coexistence of conservation and transformation, death and rebirth, the action of destroying and establishing, the new and old, and dangers and opportunities bears much resemblance to the grand living environment for modern Chinese romantic literature. This environment is definitely not a suitable seabed, but full of aconstant uproar, anxiety and instability.Until the turn of the20th-century, in a strong national crisis and cultural crisis, the western background was imposed on the romantic literature with a deep infiltration which finally presented a complete and clear appearance, and developed radically. Of course," Modern Chinese Romantic Literature " itself is not the center of study in this paper, but it is the rod for the whole research.This article attempts to use "modern Chinese literature of romantic" itself as a starting point,and place it in a multiple noisy historical context. Each historical retropect and exploration will have a foothold on the Chinese modern romantic literature as the starting point and at the same time with the implication of ending, because each small historical spot will eventually melt into modern appearance of the Chinese romantic literature.