Two Types of Authoritative Discourse on the Construction of New China's Literary Theories and their Relationship

The authoritative discourse resources for the construction of New China's literary theories are mainly Mao Zedong's thought of literature and art,then Soviet literary theories.Mao's treatises on literature and arts are limited in number and the consideration concerning many specific questions of literature and arts in these works was without academic argumentation;also there is no systematic interpretation of some basic points about Marxist theory of literature.Whereas Soviet literary theories inherited the tradition of Russian literary theories in the 19th Century,which was represented by Bellinsky,Chernychevsky and so on,and in line with the academic tradition in Europe.Despite its defections,the Soviet literary theories explored many specific questions about literature at the academic aspect.In the 1950's,the Soviet literary theories came to be unfreezing.This theoretical trend was introduced into China quickly.In the early PRC,Soviet literary theories became the only discourse resources for Chinese literary theorists to fill up the theoretical gaps of Mao's literary thoughts,break its theoretical limitations and correct its theoretical errors under the situation of aphasia of both Chinese and western classical literary theories and western modernism literary theories.