The Footsteps Of History

During the transition period from the Seventeen-year Literature and the Cultural Revolution Literature to the New Century Literature,literature in the 1980s was described in a special historical framework,full of exploration and contention.Inspired and driven by the whole literary world,children's literature also achieved development in the 1980s,and Zhou Xiao is the typical case for the study on this history of children's literature.Zhou Xiao has double identity as literary editor and critic,and the historical content and meaning of his career is extremely rich and thick.His children's literature activities were alongside the recovery and progress of children's literature after the catastrophe of the Cultural Revolution,and synchronized with the exploration and innovation of children's literature in the 1980s.As the chief editor of Offprint of Children's Literature,which was the window of Chinese children's literature,Zhou Xiao had the courage and vision of criticism to capture the fresh bud of the excellent works,foster new writers and boost theoretical contentions.And he became an important promoter for the historical development of children's literature in the 1980s.Meanwhile,with his theoretical fulcrum of children's literature is literature,he focused on clearing the harm of left-leaning views in the early,criticizing some traditional ideas,and then returning to some new phenomena.And he became a positive re:flection for the historical development of children's literature in the 1980s.During the evolution of children's literature,he gave attention to the regional writers,aware of the regional characteristics;and he studied the artistic genre in children's literature field,keeping a definite stylistic awareness.In conclude,with professional editorial integrity and high quality of criticism,Zhou Xiao made an outstanding historical contribution to the development and breakthrough for Chinese children's literature.This paper takes the social thought and historical background in the development process of children's literature in the 1980s as the warp,Zhou Xiao's edit of Offprint of Children's Literature and his theoretical review as the weft,and tries to make a classification,sorting and analysis for the deep criticism consciousness involved in the grasp of children's literature phenomena and research on works and writers.Finally,a research paradigm with a combination of history and comments will be deduced,and we could deeply witness the tortuous development of Chinese children's literature in the 1980s.