Chinese Cultureal Criticism In The 1990s'

Chinese cultural criticism in the 1990s' springs up and develops owing to the multiplicity of the Chinese culture and the influence of western cultural studies. It's a type of criticism Combined with the native social and cultural context and has its special features. It exists two kinds of tendency. One is to Study the culture of broad sense. (Which is equal to the culture of that Williams say, "Cultural is the life style"). Another is to lead the ways of the culture criticism into the literature study, so produced the literature cultural criticism The text emphasis on the latter.With the continuous development of cultural criticism, it manifests its character-ristics with "Chinese features": Firstly, the openness embodied in critical approaches, critical horizon and value orientation for crossing several courses. Secondly, it anato -mizes texts from multiple perspectives, either internal or external. Thirdly, cultural criticism becomes a criticism of "Political " participation which appears the humanities concern.Compared with the traditional literary criticism, the field of view of cultural criticism in the 1990s'is expands greatly. The Prevailing mass culture criticism, mass media criticism, Gynocriticism, the post -modern and the post -colonization criticism in the 1990s'are all included by it. On the one hand, it meets the demand that literary theory must fit the context, on the other hand, being influenced by Several factors, it exists some problems, such as: the singleness of the critics limits the field of vision of them, the generalization, it emphasis on the translation and introduction to the theory of western cultural studies, but neglects the integration and transform to it, lacking the thoughts of "native "and consciousness of criticism.In order to solve problems of culture criticism and to develop literary theory, on the premise of affirming the merits of culture criticism fully, the critics have run many trailblazing conception and practices to develop culture criticism. A series of theories and methods, such as "Cultural poetics", "to reconstruct sociology of literature", "ecology of literature", "literature anthropology" add so on, will open the vaster space for the literature criticism.