Literature Theories in People's Republic of China

When People's Republic of China was founded,China tried to learn from the Soviet Union in various fields,such as culture,thought,scholarship and so on. In this trend,in theory of literature and art,many relative works of Soviet Union were translated into Chinese,so a subject name,which greatly influenced modern Chinese literary theory,study of literature and art was introduced as well. Then from 1950 s,study of literature and art had been popular. The leading factor and soul of study of literature and art was Mao Zedong's literary thought,which had been the most popular one in domestic for more than half a century and shown its strong vitality. However,it was made comicalized and rigid because of the ultra-left thought beginning in the late 1950 s. In the new era,especially after 1990 s,the name,study of literature and art,was still mentioned by scholars,but it was not employed in the books' names,instead,literature theory was used. This subtle change reflected a new trend,a value change for many people in theories after reform and opening-up. That is,different from the former works paying much attention to ideologies,classes,parties and the like,they emphasized human literature,aesthetic,a special spiritual product for literature creation,the consumption and acception of literature,and so on.