The Evolution Of The Modern Viewpoint On Children And Chinese Modern Literature

Based on development logic of Chinese social modernization course, the modern viewpoint on children in Chinese modern history had been discovered gradually through the influence of western thoughts in modern times, politics, economy and culture in China transformed sharply, lots of men of insight studied from the western countries in an attempt to save the motherland from extinction. The traditional children viewpoint as "accessories of adults" presented a disintegration situation gradually, and it prepared the establishment of Chinese modern viewpoint on children theoretically because of introduction of large-scale western thoughts, gradual transformation of Chinese thoughts and culture urged by collisions between Chinese and Western thoughts, promotion from modern media on shaping modern social consciousness, as well as appeal and sparkplug of theories, practices and demonstrations of translations and narrations from the men of insight, such as Mr. Liang Qichao. "May 4th" era was not only a great era of thoughts liberation of "uman beings", but also a great era of self-conscious improvement of literary. It also was a foundation era of Chinese modern children literary, and an era of establishment of Chinese modern noumenon viewpoint of children. Influenced by Mr. John Dewey's education thoughts of "children centralization doctrine", the forerunners, such as Mr. Lu Xun, Mr. Zhou Zuoren and Mr. Guo Moro advocated vigorously, explained and issued the theories thoroughly, the great masters, such as Mr. Ye Shengtao and Ms Bingxin, practiced and created earnestly and actively, pushed forward the establishment and development of Chinese modern noumenon viewpoint of children. In essential, the discovery of children was the adult's viewpoint of children substantially. Determined by the special modern social era background, it was impossible to accomplish the discovery of children in an action. There were conflicts between creations and ideas in literature seminars' and left-wing writers' actual practices, the shaping of children visualization expressed strong character of social material gain, focused in showing adult thought's mighty control of children literal visualization. Children became undertakers of social problems, symbols of society and politics, and communicators of thoughts and ideas. As one of the major thoughts in the modern literature, although the viewpoint on children and visualization of children which is represented by the literature seminars and left-wing writers with tendency of material gain, had incomparable influences, however, besides the main thoughts, there still were many sub-branches which shall not be neglected. The different literal schools' acquaintanceships on children in 1930s and 1940s formed a roaring and busy scene of different tones, including exploration of hidden world of children's natural initial desire, the excavation of gloomy mental dimension of children's abnormal metamorphism, creation of the Utopias of the children's ideal humanity, and shaping sons of lands with homesickness and muddleheaded tears, bloods. In brief, the modem viewpoint on children in Chinese modern literature not merely has established one kind of new child idea, has more importantly opened up the literature creation theme, has expedited the new literature style and the new literature esthetic characteristic, and interacted the way reverse impelled other correlation domains development.