What is modern Chinese literature?

Modern Chinese literature began in the period of May Fourth Movement, but with the modern literature after the Opium War as its forerunner. Modern literature is a new product on the real soil of the new democratic revolution period, and at the same time is a development of the literature of the old democratic revolution period. The history of modern Chinese literature in a broad sense refers to the period from 1917 to 1997.

Modern Chinese literature is a new literature formed under the conditions of historical changes within the Chinese society and the wide acceptance of foreign literary influences. It not only expressed modern scientific and democratic ideas in modern language, but also revolutionized traditional literature in terms of artistic forms and methods of expression.

Expanded Information:

Modern Chinese literature is placed in the context of modern and contemporary Chinese history and modern world history to grasp its occurrence and development, and literature should be grasped in the context of the history of modern Chinese thought, and, at the same time, literature should be studied as art.

Establishing the concept of historical presence: analyzing and studying the creation of writers and the generation of works as well as the process of acceptance of literature and its influence on creation of modern Chinese literature in a specific historical context with an aesthetic vision and aesthetic concept.

Object of study in the course of Modern Chinese Literature: Modern Chinese Literature is not only the history of writers' works, but also the history of literary and cultural thought, and the history of Chinese society's acceptance and use of modern literature. At the same time, modern literature creates the imaginative space of national ****similarity for China's modern society, and plays an irreplaceable and important role in the formation and cohesion of China's modern national spirit and the formation of the nation-state.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Modern Chinese Literature