\tToday, I will introduce the modern Chinese literature. Modern Chinese literature refers to the works created from the First Opium War in 1840 to the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949.<\/p>\n
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\tBefore the May 4th Movement in 1919, modern literature features to reflect great political events and the kaleidoscopic social life of the day. Most of them voiced opposition to the foreign invasion and exposed the evil feudal system of the time. In this period, great representative poets are Gong Zizhen <\/strong>(\u9f9a\u81ea\u73cd G\u014dng Zìzh\u0113n) and Huang Zunxian <\/strong>(\u9ec4\u9075\u5baa Huáng Z\u016bnxiàn), of which Gong Zizhen was a progressive and a creative romantic poet as well as one of the founders of modern Chinese literaturte, his masterpiece is Poems 1839.<\/p>\n \tNovels were also flourishing during this time and the most renowned are Exposure of the Official World <\/strong>(\u5b98\u573a\u73b0\u5f62\u8bb0 gu\u0101nch\u01ceng xiànxíng jì) by Li Baojia <\/strong>(\u674e\u5b9d\u5609 L\u01d0 B\u01ceoji\u0101), The Travel records of Lao Can <\/strong>(\u8001\u6b8b\u6e38\u8bb0 l\u01ceo cán yóujì) by Liu E<\/strong> (\u5218\u9e57 Liú E), and Flowers in a Mrrior<\/strong> (\u955c\u82b1\u7f18 jìng hu\u0101 yuán) by Li Ruzhen <\/strong>(\u674e\u6c5d\u73cd L\u01d0 R\u01d4zh\u0113n). In addition, as contacts with foreign countries increased day by day, Chinese bourgeoisie realized the need to learn from the west, that over 1000 novels were translated and the leading translators are Yanfu<\/strong> (\u4e25\u590d Yán Fù) and Linshu <\/strong>(\u6797\u7ebe Lín Sh\u016b), which played a important part in promoting Chinese novel writing of the time as well as subsequent years.<\/p>\n \tOn May 4, 1919, an anti-imperialist, anti-feudal revolutionary movement broke out, marking the beginning of a new literature which directly helped the rising of the new literature movement to promote science, democracy and writings in the vernacular. Luxun<\/strong> (\u9c81\u8fc5 L\u01d4 Xùn) is the chief figure of the new cultural movement. With incisive realism, his collects of essays like Call for Arms <\/strong>(\u5450\u558a nà h\u01cen) and Wandering<\/strong> (\u5f77\u5fa8 páng huáng) lash out against the iniquities of the time. And his most famous short story the True Story of Ah Q<\/strong> (\u963fQ\u6b63\u4f20 \u0101 Q zhèng zhuàn) is international acknowledged as an immortal work in the history of modern Chinese literature.<\/p>\n \tIn the field of poetry, Guo Moruo <\/strong>(\u90ed\u6cab\u82e5 Gu\u014d Mòruò) is the figure initiated the modern Chinese poetry with his outstanding example, The Goddess <\/strong>(\u5973\u795e n\u01da shén).<\/p>\n \tOther important works of this period are novels Midnight<\/strong> (\u5b50\u591c z\u01d0 yè) by Mao Dun <\/strong>(\u8305\u76fe Máo Dùn), Camel Xiangzi <\/strong>(\u9a86\u9a7c\u7965\u5b50 luòtuó Xiángz\u01d0) by Lao She <\/strong>(\u8001\u820d L\u01ceo Shè), Trilogy of the Turbulent Currents<\/strong> (\u6fc0\u6d41\u4e09\u90e8\u66f2 j\u012bliú s\u0101n bù q\u01d4) by Ba Jin <\/strong>(\u5df4\u91d1 B\u0101 J\u012bn) which embraced three full-length novels-The Family<\/strong> (\u5bb6 ji\u0101), Spring<\/strong> (\u6625ch\u016bn) and Autumn<\/strong> (\u79cb qi\u016b) and the play Thunderstorm<\/strong> (\u96f7\u96e8 léi y\u01d4) by Cao Yu <\/strong>(\u66f9\u79ba Cáo Yú).<\/p>\n \tDuring the War of Liberation, themes of literature are generally the rural life in liberation areas and Chinese peasant’s struggle against the feudal rule and the system of exploitation. Representatives are Zhou Libo’s <\/strong>(\u5468\u7acb\u6ce2 Zh\u014du Lìb\u014d) The Hurricane <\/strong>(\u66b4\u98ce\u9aa4\u96e8 bàof\u0113ng-zhòuy\u01d4), Zhao Shuli’s <\/strong>(\u8d75\u6811\u7406 Zhào Shùl\u01d0) novel The Marriage of Young Black<\/strong>(\u5c0f\u4e8c\u9ed1\u7ed3\u5a5a Xi\u01ceo Erh\u0113i jiéh\u016bn) and Rhymes of Li Youcai <\/strong>(\u674e\u6709\u624d\u677f\u8bdd L\u01d0 Y\u01d2ucái b\u01cenhuà), Li Ji’s <\/strong>(\u674e\u5b63 L\u01d0 Jì) long poem Wang Gui and Li Xiangxiang <\/strong>(\u738b\u8d35\u548c\u674e\u9999\u9999 Wáng Guì hé L\u01d0 Xi\u0101ngxi\u0101ng) and the opera The White-haired Girl <\/strong>(\u767d\u6bdb\u5973 bái máo n\u01da) by He Jingzhi <\/strong>(\u8d3a\u656c\u4e4b Hè Jìngzh\u012b) and Ding Yi <\/strong>(\u4e01\u6bc5 D\u012bng Yì).<\/p>\n \tModern Chinese literature is prosperous\u3002<\/p>\n