Research About China's New Century Enlightenment Literature Transition

Since entering new century, under the influence of the Internet, Chinese thinking circles starts to brew a thinking transformation. The incompleteness of the past two enlightenments has come out, and more and more people have realized the embarrassment of reality. Under such background, Enlightenment has been put onto the agenda of ideological change again. As a natural friend of enlightening, literature has self-consciously undertaken the important role of communication.By defining the concept of enlightenment, this paper focuses on the importance of vernunft to enlightenment, and concludes that the most important significance of China's current enlightenment lies in the thoroughly wiping of rationalism in Chinese thought field. The paper argues that, the establishment of national social rationality is the premise of current China's social progress, while national social rationality depends on the establishment of individual rationality led by torchbearers. Therefore, the paper considers that the whereabouts of enlightenment lies on the establishment of individual rationality under the summoning of rationalism.Combined with the analysis of text example of current enlightenment, this paper raises the discussion of the transformation of enlightenment literature. Based on the demonstration of the proximities between enlightenment and literature and the healthy relationship between enlightenment and market, the paper begins to evaluate the transformation of enlightenment literature in the new century in the manner of rationality. Searching for shadow of rationality within the analysis of literature phenomenon, the paper demonstrates the existence of enlightenment literature in the new century and the differences between the current and the previous enlightenment literature. The article argues that, enlightenment literature in the new century has the following characteristics:the highlighting of torchbearers' subject value and the concealing of texts' enlightening meaning, realistic concealed the rationality of individual in reality and the change of enlightening object, as well as the digestion of grand narrative digestion and the transformation enlightenment strategy.Based on the analysis of The cause of the characteristics of the transformation in enlightenment literature, the paper holds that the tide of the world modernization let the Chinese intellectuals who pay close attention to China's development and expect China maintains consistent development with the world possess a strong sense of mission. Meanwhile, the development of the Internet has created a virtual public field for people to, letting more and more people know about the awkward situation of their environment. This article argues that the digestion of grand narrative digestion and the transformation enlightenment strategy begin with the popularity of 1990s' consumer culture, which causes literature so stuck in the mire of the consumption as to extricate oneself. Only by attracting the attention of the audience with the keitch outlook can literature accomplish its historical mission of enlightenment. Taking enlightenment and rationality as the theoretical basis, the paper leads to the significance of enlightenment literature to accomplishment of enlightenment through the analysis of the text. The paper demonstrates the existence of rationality in current literature, the characteristics of the transformation of enlightenment literature, and a careful analysis of the causes of the transformation. It also pays great attention to enlightenment literature in the new century.