Reflections on The Relationship Between Western Contemporary Literary Theories and Chinese Literary Theory

TheCultural Travel of Western contemporary theories brought many self-reflections to Chinese literary scholarship. To understand the contexts of these trends of thought being occurred and to think that the problems they mean to resolve have much to do with our own cultural construction. Are they only the problems of the West, or, of our whole world? Are they only the national, inner problems, or, the global ones? Are they the problems of the modern literary scholarship, or, the post-modern ones? Deeply inquiring these problems would be most helpful for us to rethink our own problems and to establish the new Chinese literary theory in the context of globalization in this new century.