现代中国文学西化追求的阶段性及经验教训

The Stages of Westernization of Chinese Literature and Its Lessons

本文认为现代中国文学的起点既非传统的1917年，亦非持20世纪中国文学观所认为的1900年，而应该从1894年的甲午战争开始，从那以后西方文学的翻译促成了中国文学的现代转型。1894至今的现代中国文学可划分为5个阶段，文章分析了各个阶段在西化上的不同特征，最后总结了现代中国文学西化的经验教训，认为西化时与传统衔接好的文体曼容易获得成功，而且也不能将一时一地产生的西方文学作为西方文学的整体加以模仿。

Modern Chinese literature did not begin from 1917 as traditionally believed, nor from 1900 as held by the notion of 20^th century Chinese literature, but from 1894 when the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 began. Translation of Western literature since 1894 led to the modernization of Chinese literature. The paper divides modern Chinese literature since 1894 into five stages and analyzes their respective characteristics. The westernization of Chinese literature shows that the westernization coupled with Chinese tradition will make a writing more easily accepted and that it is unadvisable to imitate the writings of particular time and location in the West as the literature of the West in general,