Perspective on the 20th Century's Chinese Romanticism

Modern Romantion is the product of liberal spirit expanding to the field of emotion. Chinese Romanticism sprouted in the early 20~(th) century and bloomed during the May 4th Movement. Mostly thanks to the rise of the social revolution, Chinese Romanticism began to divide and develop in two main directions: the pastoral Romanticism and the revolutionary Romanticism. The former became the main stream in 1940s, revived in the new period and vanished into the modemist tides in 1980s. And the latter degraded into pseudoromanticism during the Great Cultural Revolution This paper is an attempt to delineate the development of the Chinese Romanticism, make out some developing laws, and expand on the some important theoretic problems.