A Thesis On Leo Ou-fan Lee's Study Of Chinese Modern Literature

Leo Ou-fan Lee is a famous scholar both in China and in the world, and he is one of the top experts who can be counted on fingers in the study field of Chinese modern literature. His learning career is interesting and afforded for thought.Leo Ou-fan Lee has noticeable contribution to the study of Chinese modern literature. He values the romantic generation in May 4th movement again, points out the newly romantic way in Chinese modern literature, and draws the outline of the romantic tide in literature. He forms a set of narration which opposes May 4th movement and left wing narrations, through unearthing "decadence". His particularity review on Lu xun's conflict mind and preeminent creation makes us find everything new and fresh, and figures a complex and profound "human Lu xun". He introduces the theory of two kinds of modernity and explores the particular Chinese modernity in the post-modern language surroundings. He firstly relates modernity with the development of Chinese modern literature, and puts Chinese literature and culture of the whole 20th century into his modernity explosion network. He emphasizes the huge effect of Late Qing literature on imagining Chinese city and creating Chinese modernity. He constructs again Shanghai's city culture in 1930s' and 1940s',and sees about the modernity of modern Shanghai. He also brings forth "two city story", and studies city culture and phenomena by the consult of each other. All of these become an important say which can't be ignored.Leo Ou-fan Lee's study on Chinese modern literature was special. He holds pluralistic culture viewpoint and compare culture thinking and has mixed and rich content. He regards himself as a scholar like a fox and looks for a coordinate for his study using mixed knowledge. He advocates "margin theory", keeps space from the "center", and play a kind of criticize role to the "center". He often wanders from modern to culture, from China to Western countries, from modern to post-modern and between culture, history and philosophy. He uses many kinds of theories rightly...