Reflections on the Methodology of Chinese Literary Criticism and the Research Methods of Classical Chinese Literary Theories

under the influence of the craze since the 1980s, great achievement has been made in the study of the methodology of Chinese literary and in the reflection on the research methods of classical Chinese literary theory. Modernization of classical literary criticism brought forth together with the problems of the relation between the old and the new will Lead our reflections on the study of classical literary theory to new insights into its history and future. The reflections on methodology manifest strongly the introspection of the study of classical literary theory in this period.