The Difference Between Modern Literature and Contemporary Literature

Differences: different time phases, different research contents, different limited scope, different stages, and different representatives

1. Different time phases

Modern Chinese literature refers to literary works created during the period from 1919 to 1949;

Contemporary Chinese literature refers to literary works created during the period from 1949 to the present. Contemporary Chinese literature refers to the literary works created during the period from 1949 to the present.

2. Different contents of study

The basic content of the modern Chinese literature course includes two major parts: literary history and works. It mainly focuses on the development process and its laws during the thirty years of modern Chinese literature, the changes and connections of various literary phenomena, and the representative works of representative writers during this period.

Contemporary Chinese Literature It studies literary movements and important literary phenomena in the history of the development of contemporary literature, analyzes the works of important contemporary writers, and summarizes lessons learned.

3. Different scopes of limitation

Modern literature revolutionizes the traditional literature, so as to be in line with the trend of the world literature, and to become the literature in the real modern sense.

Contemporary literature is literature that takes place in a specific socialist historical context, which is limited to the scope of "mainland China".

4. Different phases

Modern Chinese literature is divided into the following three phases:

The first decade (1917-1927): democratic consciousness, the spirit of science, and socialist ideology.

The second decade (1927-1937): class liberation consciousness, socialist consciousness of left-wing revolutionary literature, and the coexistence of democrat and liberal humanist literary consciousness.

The third decade (1937-1949): national liberation consciousness and people's liberation consciousness, multi-regional, diversified and popularized literature.

Contemporary Chinese literature is divided into the following phases:

First phase 1949-1978;

Second phase 1978-1989;

Third phase 1990s-new century.

5. Different Representative Characters

The representative writers of modern Chinese literature are:

Lu Xun, Shen Congwen, Guo Moruo, Mao Dun, Ba Jin, Lao She, Cao Yu, Zhang Ailing, Xu Zhimo, Wen Yiduo, Ding Ling, Zhao Shuli, Dai Wangshu, Xiaohong, Ai Wu, Qian Zhongshu, Ai Qing, Lu Ling, and Mudan.

Contemporary Chinese literature is represented by writers such as:

Ba Jin, Ding Ling, Zang Kejia, Zhao Shuli, Zhang Tianyi, Zhou Libo, Ai Qing, Yang Shuo, Sun Li, Yang Mo, Zhou Zui, and so on.

Extended information:

Literary classification:

Literature in different languages or countries:

Asian Literature: Chinese Literature, Mashin Literature, Japanese Literature

European Literature: English Literature, German Literature, Greek Literature, Russian Literature

Literature of the Americas: American Literature, Latin Literature

(Literature is likewise divided into nationalities)

Comparative Literature: Comparative literature refers to the study of literature across cultures and disciplines.

Comparative literature is a study of literature that entails, first and foremost, the study of the various histories, realities, and possibilities of human communication through literature in different cultures and different disciplines. It is committed to mutual understanding between cultures and hopes for mutual and sincere respect and tolerance.

Divided into three main categories by vehicle: oral literature, written literature, and Internet literature.

Divided by geography: foreign literature, Chinese literature and so on.

Divided by the age of readers: children's literature, adult literature and so on.

Divided by readership and content: serious literature and popular or popular literature, folk literature, minority literature, religious literature, etc.

Divided by content: historical and biographical literature, documentary literature, fantasy literature, reportage literature and so on.

By genre of expression: novels, essays, poems, reportage, new rhymes, plays, operas, scripts, folklore, fables, notebook novels, wild history, fairy tales, couplets and jokes, etc.; others, such as historical biographies, philosophies, fugues, ekphrasis, essays, literary criticism, computer games (including game hosts) and animation with a literal plot structure.

By the creative concept: romantic literature, realism literature, etc..

Literary Theory

Theory of literature is categorized into Western literary theory and Eastern literary theory.

Criticism and study of literary worksLiterary history: history of foreign literature and history of Chinese literatureLiterary genres, literary trends and literary societies.

Literary studies

By research direction is divided into literary aesthetics, literary art, literature of the new socialist period, history of literary thought, literary criticism, literary history.

Divided by time into modern literature and modern literature.

Divided into comparative literature, dance literature, red studies, etc. by single research direction.

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