Traditions and New-Currents of Children's Literature in China during 1980s and 1990s

China's children's literature in 1980s and 1990s witnessed great development and prosperity due to the joint forces of the following three factors: ① the inheritance of the traditional spirit advocated in children's literature during the May 4 Movement; ② the activation of writers' productivity as a result of the classification of children's literature into infancy literature, childhood literature and juvenile literature; ③ the promotion of the value of children's literature and the writers' humanistic responsibility by reconstructing human consciousness and moulding national characters of the future generations.