The Literary Award And The Construction Of Literary Cannon In The Period Of Transition

National Excellent Short Story Award of 1978, occurred in the transition of "Cultural Revolution" to "New", is the first national literary awards since the Founding, and also the beginning of the many literary awards in the New. This paper argues that the "National Excellent Short Stories", as the national honor of the award, is "models " of certain literary works(published after the "Cultural Revolution") made by the state, experts, and people with literary awards, and is a new literary "classic" order built in their compromise and struggle.The novel awards in the 1978, as the object of the article, is revealed the complex relationship between the mechanism of literary awards and the construction of literary "classic", and showed with the both properties, "fault" and "turning", of the age.In the first chapter, how the literary awards as a new mechanism be established, during the transition. In the second chapter, analyzing the process of the literary works be selected into the "classic" series, by the people, the editorial of "People's Literature" and experts, and the link between the new literature" classic" and the literature in the "Cultural Revolution",and even the one from the 1949 to the 1966.In the third chapter, analyzing the changes of writers'identity in the during the transition.