How the Postmodern Literary Theories Entered China and Inserted Influences?

Abstract

Abstract: This article reviews and examines the five stages during which postmodern literary theory currents gradually entered China and exerted influences since the 1980s. With a significant amount of empirical evidence, the paper demonstrates that the influences of the Western postmodernism filtered slowly through the field of Chinese literary theory in the process during which Chinese theoretical circle did not unreservedly embrace the theories but accepted the influences through borrowing and assimilation, refutation and criticism. The paper takes the essentialist way of thinking as an example and expounds the characteristics of the positive and negative impacts which the postmodern literary theories have on Chinese theories.

Key words: postmodernism, literary theories, theoretical entrance into China, influence

Zhu Liyuan. How the Postmodern Literary Theories Entered China and Inserted Influences?[J]. Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art, 2014, 34(4): 6-17.

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