The 1898 Reform: Modernity and Rule of Transition in Chinese Literature

The whole transition from ancient Chinese to modern one began in the period of the 1898 Reform,whose preconditions are the background of world literature and imagination of modern national countries,so its modernity is various.Authors are the key.Literary ideas are changed or go with literary works with modernity.Four literary genres consist in the basic pattern of Chinese literature.Translation is an important component of literary modernity.China's body and Western function is a special rule in the modern transition of Chinese literature.