Crossing The Century Gate

20^th century has become a historical topic. In the century, which is filled with abrupt changes and excellent prospects, literature, a special "science of man" , has shown many different directions in which people can get access to the future. 20th century "Transition Identity" decides literature context to be open to the outside and adventurous. It is in this background that, the Chinese reportage has gone through as long an expedition as the 20th century, and has smoothly crossed the century gate. The period of 100 years has provided us with an opportunity to undertake a thorough exploration of the Chinese reportage. Generally, the Chinese reportage originated in the end of 19th century and in the beginning of 20th century, benefited greatly in May 4th new culture movement, and took shape in 30' s "Left Association" theory and practice, in which Lu Xun has attributed a lot. 20' s Chinese reportage has been dominated respectively by three kinds of social and historical context, i.e, military and political, political and economic, and knowledge and culture context. Therefore, the Chinese reportage has witnessed three tides and correspondingly has produced three types of reportage: 30' s country-saving reportage; 50' s construction reportage and 80' s reform reportage. If the three types taken into consideration, it is not difficult to become aware of the trend toward multiplization in both subject and writing, and toward electricalization in media. On balance, transiton-period reportage canbe regarded as the mature variance of the literature style, which is demonstrated in the three aspects: rescue-and-atonement theme for the sake of nature, spirit, and culture; aesthetic form involving image creation, detailed description, poetic convey, presentation techniques, multi-perspective narration, epic space; cultural features to anticipate a bright future by means of advantages in being pioneering in forecast, being considerate of civilians and being gradual in discourse.