Whether from the perspective of literary history, or from the perspective of political history and social history, 2021 is a special year with nodal significance. Looking back at the literary research in 2021, we will find that Chinese literature research as a whole presents a style of "learning from the past and learning from the past, and being new to history", showing a certain degree of summary, innovation, contemporaneity and diversity in terms of research objects, research paths, research methods and research angles.
The overall landscape of the annual literary study
The major events in the country's political life, the profound changes in social life, the technological revolution in the world, the new changes in literary creation and the innovation of research concepts have profoundly affected the problem concerns, value orientations, and path methods of literary research in 2021, and affected the internal logic of the renewal and iteration of literary research.
The formation of academic hotspots is often closely related to reality, and major events in the political life of countries always have a profound impact on literary research directly or indirectly. This year, we have achieved the first centenary goal and are full of vigor toward the second centenary goal of comprehensively building a socialist modern power; the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China has summed up the major achievements and historical experience of the party's century-old struggle; the National Literary Congress and the Writers' Congress have been held, and General Secretary Xi Jinping has called on the vast number of literary and art workers to "grasp the theme of the era of national rejuvenation." Under the influence of these major events, the Chinese characteristics and Chinese style of literary studies have been significantly enhanced. Examining the problems of literary history and literary research with a broader view of history, establishing the relationship between literary research and life practice with a more open disciplinary view, refreshing the vision of academic research with a more inclusive and confident concept of civilization, and summarizing historical experience and expounding contemporary values in the organic combination of history, reality and the future are becoming the conscious pursuit of literary research.
Profound changes in social life profoundly affect the basic picture of literary research. This year, the gross domestic product exceeded the 100 trillion yuan mark for the first time, manned spaceflight moved from quantitative accumulation to qualitative leap, And China's economic strength, scientific and technological strength, and comprehensive national strength jumped to a new level; China's tremendous achievements in fighting the epidemic are miraculous, providing important reference and support for the prevention and control of the epidemic in various countries in the world, and making the Chinese people feel proud. In this context, the cultural self-confidence and cultural consciousness of literary research have been significantly enhanced, based on the practice of contemporary Chinese society, we have persistently integrated the basic principles of Marxism with China's specific reality and china's excellent traditional culture, studied Chinese issues and times, studied systemic and original issues, and actively built the "three major systems" of literary research with Chinese characteristics, and achieved a series of important theoretical achievements.
This year, science and technology have more deeply affected the form and development of literature, and have also penetrated more deeply into the objects, resources, concepts and methods of literary research. Online literature, science fiction literature, media culture, posthumanism, technology and humanities have further expanded the horizons and boundaries of literary research; database construction, big data methods, digital humanities, and artificial intelligence have attracted more and more young scholars, and new liberal arts concepts and interdisciplinary concepts have been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
Important directions and achievements of annual literary studies
In 2021, the results of literary research are rich, innovative theoretical construction, broad academic vision, rich problem perspectives, and diverse research methods are reflected in the disciplines of literature and art, Classical Chinese literature, Chinese modern and contemporary literature, comparative literature and world literature, and are concentrated in the following aspects.
(1) The review and summary of the great course, major achievements, and historical experiences of the centenary of the founding of the Party have yielded remarkable results
At the important intersection of history, reviewing and summarizing the great course, major achievements and historical experience of literary development from a century-old perspective has important academic value and distinct practical significance, which is the hot spot and highlight of Chinese literature research in 2021. Since the beginning of the year, academic journals such as Chinese Social Sciences, Literary Criticism, and Literary and Art Studies, as well as some academic societies, have set up columns and held seminars on such themes as "Theory and Practice of the 100 Years of the Communist Party of China," "Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Founding of the Communist Party of China," and "The Leadership of the Party and a Century of Literature and Art." On the one hand, they summarized and reflected on the foundation, characteristics, and trends of literature itself from a century-old perspective, and on the other hand, they deeply analyzed the complex literary field, strove to seek new changes in research, and presented historical and contemporary. A clear gesture of innovation and inclusiveness, criticism and constructiveness.
Summarize the experience of the party's leadership in literature and art, and explore the spiritual and cultural value of new literature. The literary research community links the century-old party history and literary history, reviews and summarizes the development process of literature from a century-old perspective, reflects on the essential connotation and cultural value of literature, and highlights cultural self-confidence. Chen Sihe sorted out the different methods of the party in leading literary and artistic work in different periods, made a detailed outline of the changes in the function and nature of literary criticism, and pointed out that the new literature is not only a natural ally of the Communist Party of China, but also an organic part of the entire revolutionary cause. Chen Xiaoming shifted from the traditional to the modern, the world, the popular, the ethical construction, the folk rediscovery, and the new media of the Internet and audiovisual opening, and sorted out the spiritual value of the century-old Chinese literary construction. Zhang Qingmin summed up the development and successful experience of the CPC in leading literature and art over the past century; in leading literary and artistic work, the party has always adhered to serving the people, taken the road of sinification of Marxist literature and art, correctly handled the relationship between politics and literature and art, actively explored and innovated, and accumulated rich experience. Zhao Xueyong discussed the historical experience of Yan'an literature and art and the development of Chinese literature in the past century, and interpreted the contemporary nature of Yan'an's literary and artistic spirit in light of the problems faced by contemporary literature. Jiang Shuzhuo studied the interaction between the spirit of new China, such as the "spirit of patriotism" and the spirit of reform and opening up, and the generation of literary classics. Starting from the dominant concept of "liberation", Li Yongdong presents the "liberation" writing of modern Chinese literature as a whole. Xie Gang and Jiang Zhenlong studied the modern Chinese concept of ethnic literature and expounded the concept of the poetics of the national community. Wang Zhaosheng believes that Chinese prose in the past hundred years is inseparable from the statute of the "national system" as the main body, and we should examine the itinerary, characteristics, laws, values and significance of Chinese-style modernization in prose from the perspective of national prose.
Reflect on the process of literary research and deepen the connotation of Marxist literary and artistic theory. Zhang Fugui conducted an in-depth discussion on the logical evolution and artistic presentation of the century-old party history and The new Chinese literature and art, and believed that the Communist Party of China and China's new literature and art are consistent in historical logic and ideological development, and the "spirit of party history" affects the inherent quality of China's new literature and art. Jiang Shuzhuo believes that the relationship between the various elements of national discourse is mutual restraint, mutual complementarity, and mutual dialogue and consultation, which is an important means for the CPC to carry out national governance of literature and art. Tan Haozhe believes that the century-old Chinese Marxist literary and artistic values have gone through four stages: missionary, cognitive, aesthetic, and cultural. Gao Jianping believes that the three concepts of "other laws", "intervention" and "for the people" constitute the development clues of Chinese Marxist aesthetics in the past century. Fu Qilin believes that the three classic texts of the CPC's literary and artistic thought have formed three peaks in the sinification of Marxist literary and art theory. Dong Xuewen believes that the Chinese Communists have pushed Marxist literary and art theory from the introduction form to the creative form, from the theoretical form to the practical form, from the practical form to the institutional form, and gradually formed the academic system and discourse system of Chinese Marxist literary and art theory.
(2) "Two combinations" have become an important aspect of literary research
"Persistently integrating the basic tenets of Marxism with China's specific reality and with China's excellent traditional culture" is a major innovation in contemporary Chinese Marxist theory, a historical experience gained from the CPC's struggle over the past century, and a rich and profound ideological connotation. The contemporarization and sinicization of Marxist literary and art theory, the combination of Marxism and traditional Chinese culture, and the relationship between Marxism and Chinese literary practice have become important aspects of literary research in 2021. People's literature and art, national form, cultural self-confidence, theoretical consciousness, realism, creative transformation and innovative development have become high-frequency vocabulary.
Study and study the profound connotations of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important expositions on literary and artistic work. General Secretary Xi Jinping's important exposition on literary and artistic work is the latest achievement in the sinification of Marxist literary and art theory. In 2021, the research on General Secretary Xi Jinping's important expositions on literary and artistic work has been deepened. The article "Literature in the New Era Must Bear in Mind the Great Power of the Country" of the Party Group of the Chinese Writers Association of the Communist Party of China emphasizes that literature in the new era must hold high the great banner of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, keep in mind the "Great One of the Country", grasp the historical initiative, have the courage to take action, and contribute to the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Li Yi believes that General Secretary Xi Jinping's important expositions on literary and artistic work have put forward a series of major ideological views with originality, epochality and guidance, containing distinct Marxist ideological methods and working methods, and achieving important breakthroughs at the epistemological and methodological level. Experts such as Dong Xuewen, Wang Yichuan, Zhang Dexiang, Ding Guoqi, Wang Liesheng, Li Xijian, and Fan Yugang made in-depth expositions from the aspects of people's nature, the nature of the times, the scientific system, and the criteria for criticism.
Explore the values and paths of the contemporarization and sinicization of Marxist literary theory. The most important thing in the development of Marxist literary theory in China is to integrate it with the practice of the development of Chinese literature and art to achieve contemporarization and Sinicization. Lai Daren inspected the development process of the sinification of Marxist literary theory and held that "people's literature and art" is an advanced literary and artistic concept that has been formed and developed over the past hundred years under the leadership of the party and in the process of literary and artistic practice, leading literary and artistic practice and promoting the vigorous development of literary and artistic undertakings. Zhang Yongqing proposed that in the process of establishing and consolidating the fundamental viewpoint of reflection theory, which is a Marxist literary theory, the Sovietization has gradually weakened and the Sinicization has gradually strengthened, indicating the theoretical consciousness, cultural consciousness and national consciousness in the construction of the new Chinese discourse system. Duan Jifang analyzed the "three main lines" of the sinicization of the chineseized textual dissemination of marxist classic literary and artistic thought in the May Fourth period, namely Marx's "economic thought", "materialist view of history" and "socialist thought". Hu Yamin believes that the "Notes on Historiography" excerpted by Marx in his later years is an expansion and deepening of Marx's materialist view of history, and its concepts and methods have guiding significance for Chinese Marxist literary criticism.
Deepen the integration of Marxism with China's excellent traditional culture. Zhao Minli believes that the introduction of Marxism into China has shifted the perspective of ancient literary research from the traditional emphasis on indoctrination and cultivation of disposition to the concern for social reality and the understanding of literary ontology, and constructed an interpretation system dominated by "critical inheritance". Dang Shengyuan believes that the Chinese Communists insist on reflecting and criticizing traditional Chinese culture, and have formed a traditional cultural concept from constructive criticism to innovative transformation. Han Gaonian believes that the view of literature and social history under the influence of the Marxist materialist view of history has become the dominant idea and method in literary research in the 20th century, and the face of classical literature research has changed. Hongjun believes that the importance attached to the folk literary tradition by Chinese Marxist literary theory has a certain inheritance relationship with Confucian people-oriented ideas such as "guan poetry", "resentment", "poetry teaching" and "music teaching". Through a century-old review of the study of folk literature, Liao Kebin pointed out that the study of folk literature has a distinct people's nature.
(3) The historical dimension and contemporary concern of literary research are becoming increasingly prominent
"Literature changes depend on the world, and the rise and fall of the world depends on the chronology." Literature has developed with the changes of the times, and the charm and vitality of literature have been continuously defined and reconstructed in the changes of the times. Literary research must first grasp the historical dimension of literature, restore the historical context on which it is based as objectively as possible, and examine and evaluate works, writers and literary phenomena from a historicist perspective; at the same time, literary research has always been a process of dialogue between reality and history, discovering historical significance in dialogue and realizing contemporary values in dialogue. In 2021, the historical dimension and contemporary concern of literary research have become increasingly prominent, and "thought with historical materials" and "historical materials with thoughts" have become a consensus.
Historical research and philology highlight the historical dimension of literary research. Unearthed documents provide new academic growth points for the study of ancient literature. Liao Qun used Qinghua Jian's "Lineage Year" to argue that the "Historical Record" quoted zuo's "Spring and Autumn" as the original appearance, Cheng Zhangcan looked at the locality of literature production from the Yongzhou Moya stone carving, and Liu Chengguo used a new epitaph to discuss the expansion of Song Dynasty literature research, etc., all of which used the new documents to make new excavations on traditional issues. In the field of modern and contemporary literature and the field of literary and art theory research, the excavation and collation of historical materials has received unprecedented attention, and the research of historical materials and philology has yielded fruitful results. Yan Jiayan, Hong Zicheng, Wu Jun, Wu Yiqin, Wang Yao, Liu Fuchun, Huang Fayou, Jin Hongyu, Yang Qingxiang, Huang Ping, Si Yanwei, etc., have promoted the research progress of "thinking with historical materials" and "thinking about historical materials" through different means. In addition to the examination of writers' works in general, the seemingly "marginal" historical research such as conferences, study classes, and editorial departments related to contemporary literature is also highly valued.
Classic rereading and rewriting of literary history deepens the contemporary care of literary studies. Classical rereadings are placed in a broader textual community, and interpretation seeks to engage in multiple dialogues with the times and texts. Zhang Xinke believes that grasping the construction path of ancient literary classics is conducive to our current theoretical understanding and practical exploration of "two innovations". Through the rereading of Xin Cilu's poems, Mo Lifeng reveals the patriotic feelings of the Chinese nation. Xu Zidong, Li Jikai, Zhang Lijun, Li Jianjun and others re-read literary classics such as "Red Flag Spectrum", "Song of Youth", "History of Entrepreneurship", "Ordinary World" and so on in a deeply specific context, and then stand outside history, showing a sense of care for the contemporary. "Literary and Art Controversy" discusses the extension and connotation of contemporaryness, how to classicize contemporary literary works, and "Contemporary Literary Circles" discusses the writing of contemporary literary history, highlighting the contemporary significance of literary history writing.
In addition, the call for the reconstruction of literary criticism, the strengthening of the function of criticism, the exploration of changes in social life, and the all-round impact of new technological revolutions on literary production, consumption and academic production have made the realistic demands of literary research increasingly strong.
(4) The expansion of research methods and research resources has become a new growth point for literary research
Academic innovation is often accompanied by the expansion of research methods and research resources, and new research methods and research resources will inevitably promote new growth points in academic research. In 2021, important progress will be made in the expansion of literary research methods and research resources. Literary studies go hand in hand in quantitative and qualitative research, and digital humanities and multidisciplinary interdisciplinary approaches are becoming more and more common in literary studies.
Electronic documents such as databases and document platforms provide new research perspectives and methods for the study of ancient literature. The Library of Chinese Classics and The Platform for Wisdom Ancient Books of Zhejiang University are becoming new infrastructures for academic research. Data-based quantitative analysis methods have brought new perspectives and ideas to the study of ancient literature. Liu Shi et al. believe that big data technology has triggered a revolution in the production mode of traditional literature and a new change in structural form, which can innovate the practice path of traditional philology, spawn new research paradigms, and promote the modern transformation of traditional philology. Wang Zhaopeng et al. analyzed the hierarchy and temporal and spatial distribution of Song Dynasty poetry lyricists, and refined the understanding of the development process of Song Dynasty literature through the statistical data of Song Dynasty poetry lyricists and works. Zhao Yaofeng took the study of "Wenxin Carved Dragon" as an example to prove that data mining technology can form a new literary interpretation horizon.
Multidisciplinary interdisciplinary research methods have received widespread attention. Linguistics provides basic concepts and methods for the study of ancient literature, and the academic community pays special attention to the study of ancient poetry from the perspective of linguistics. Ge Xiaoyin, Han Jingtai, and Feng Shengli discussed the logical starting point of the study of Chinese poetic language art, the corresponding mechanism of rhythm and tonal steps, the "poeticization" of language and the "grammar" of poetry. Shi Wei believes that the tradition of literary research with historical comparative linguistics as a tool and the semantics research represented by the British Ricciard have added a new theoretical basis to the study of traditional literature. Wang Huaiyi and Cheng Guofu attach great importance to the profound influence of images and literal visual texts. Gong Zongjie and Hu Qi believe that the understanding of musicality in traditional literature is very valuable. Wang Lixin combines textual and contextual analysis of the effectiveness of interdisciplinary research in foreign literature. Chen Yuehong discusses interdisciplinary research in the age of digital intelligence. Jin Hengshan believes that the interdisciplinary study of foreign literature cannot be separated from the ontology of literature.
The continuous excavation and integrated research of foreign Chinese books and traditional literature has promoted the expansion of the research field and the transformation of research perspectives. Zhang Bowei believes that scholars should regard the Han cultural circle and Chinese character literature as a whole, and pay attention to the different meanings of the same documents in different contexts. Chen Bohai and Chen Shangjun pointed out that the excavation and collation of foreign Chinese books has become a new driving force for the study of Tang poetics. Sun Xun believes that a large number of Chinese novels written by ancient Korean scholars and writers provide a living text for understanding and understanding East Asian Confucianism. The tenth collection of literary documents such as the "Guben Opera Series", the "Qing Dynasty Mongolian Ethnic Group Collection Series" and other literary documents, and the results of the collation of ancient books such as "Shimen Script Zen School Notes" and "Notes on the Collected Poems of Lü Ben" have been published one after another.
(5) New literary and cultural phenomena continue to expand the boundaries and horizons of literary research
Network literature, science fiction literature and art, media culture, post-theory, and post-humanity have continuously expanded the boundaries and horizons of literary research, making literary research resonate with the new forms of literary culture on the same frequency, and continue to attract the interest of the academic community.
A new trend in contemporary literary theory. Through the reflection on the relationship between literary theory and literary practice since the new period, Zhou Xian believes that literature in the future will present more possibilities, and literary research has always responded to the questions raised by literary changes. Zhu Guohua believes that literary studies have now become an effective method of social criticism, and chinese literary studies have flourished in the context of the decline of the entire Western humanities. Liu Fangxi examines from the perspective of the history of material craftsmanship, and believes that artificial intelligence is liberating people from unfree labor and starting the last leap of human beings to the triple jump of the kingdom of freedom. Tang Yonghua proposed a form and ethics of posthuman narrative, emphasizing the profound impact of the virtual body on the relationship between body and mind.
A fusion of literature and culture. The increasing blend of contemporary literature and culture has brought about various anti-essentialist and "post-theoretical" trends. Jin Huimin believes that "literary theory without literature" does not generally oppose "literary" and "aesthetic", but opposes literary essentialism and aesthetic essentialism. Xing Jianchang believes that post-theory is not the end of the theory, but a skeptical attitude towards the big theory, a tendency or turning trend of theoretical reflection. Wang Zhenglong believes that post-theory is not so much an independent theory or faction as a new form of existence of literary theory, interdisciplinary, lowercase theory, reflexivity are its basic characteristics, "between" and the expansion of literature are its development trends. Zhao Charter believes that literature is not only the art of language, but also the art of writing, and the "language image", "character image" and "book image" connect the image relationship between the two arts, and the theoretical study of this relationship is "literary book image theory". Yao Wenfang believes that in recent times, the "careful reading" from "new criticism" to "rough reading" of "theory" has become the general trend of literary criticism reading, and the reading of literary criticism has shifted from text reading to social and political analysis, which has been concentrated in literary sociology.
(VI) The reflective and innovative research on basic academic theories, basic issues, and basic concepts has been steadily advanced
The reflective and innovative study of basic theories, basic problems and basic concepts has always been the foundation and focus of literary research. The continuous achievements and breakthroughs on these issues show the theoretical depth and historical thickness of literary research. In 2021, in addition to the issues of the contemporarization and sinicization of Marxist literary theory discussed earlier, the re-understanding and re-elaboration of classic writers and works, and the "historicization" of literary research, important progress has also been made in the following aspects.
Hermeneutics as a methodology for the construction of contemporary literary theory. In order to gain contemporaryity in Chinese literary theory, it is first necessary to conduct preconditional reflection and methodological innovation on the basic propositions of literary theory. Zhang Jiang re-discussed compulsory interpretation, expanding the "forced hermeneutic theory" into a more universal hermeneutic theory, and proposing methods and paths for constructing contemporary Chinese literary theory. Hongjun believes that the theoretical achievements of "compulsory hermeneutic theory" are mainly reflected in the emphasis on explanatory ethics, in-depth thinking on the issue of interpreting publicity, and the summary and reference of Chinese hermeneutic thought. Gao Nan believes that the "certainty of the object" is logically placed in the starting point of interpretation, expectations and motivations and other psychological theories, so that hermeneutics can be carried out in higher-level specific research. Li Chunqing believes that the certainty of the object of interpretation cannot be understood as the uniqueness of meaning, and it also includes the rich meaning behind the text. Cao Shunqing, Ding Guoqi, Gu Pengfei, and Zhuo Jin provide a new perspective for thinking about the problem of compulsory interpretation from the perspective of the connection between hermeneutics and contemporary social practice.
Reinterpretation of Chinese and foreign literary and artistic theoretical resources. The "Comparison of Chinese and Western Keywords" column set up by Chinese Literary Criticism has deepened and promoted the study of comparative poetics. In addition, Qian Chinese examines bakhtin's poetics and philosophical themes, Zhang Zhengwen studies the marginal problems in the field of the center of German classical aesthetics, Lu Yang pays attention to the spatial turn in contemporary Western literary theory, Zhao Yong examines the connotation and path of Adorno's internal criticism, Zeng Jun discusses the Chinese factors in the western narrative knowledge system, and Fu Xiuyan proposes the perspective of auditory narrative, which provides a new perspective for us to construct contemporary literary theory.
The "primary problem" in literary studies and the re-examination of basic ideas. Zuo Dongling believes that the "primary problem" in the study of ancient Chinese literature is mainly manifested in the conflict and contradiction between modern pure literary concepts and traditional essay concepts. Zhang Bowei re-examined the Concept of "Literature" in China, arguing that it was inappropriate to reduce the evolution of concepts to the evolution of nouns and replace the analysis of meaning with the columns of literature. Zhao Minli advocates the establishment of a dynamic authorship view that conforms to the reality of early Chinese classical generation, revealing its role and significance in the generation of classics and the construction of Chinese culture. Cheng Sudong believes that the concept of "tianlai theory" and "author theory" has a fundamental impact on the development of Chinese literary history. Ou Mingjun advocates reconstructing the traditional concept of "big literature" prose and taking the road of "returning to the basics and opening up a new one". Wu Zhouwen and Chen Jianhui believe that the autonomous and localization construction of prose theory discourse needs to re-analyze the core concepts of prose style, dialectically deal with multiple functions such as "carrying the tao" and "yanzhi", and grasp the "archetypal" spirit of adhering to the "unity of heaven and man".
The study of important literary phenomena and the works of classic writers presents a new situation. In the study of modern and contemporary literature, macroscopic, long-term, holistic and microscopic, short-term and partial research complement each other, the pattern of complementary integration has gradually taken shape. As the mainstream of modern and contemporary Chinese literature, realist literature has received full attention in terms of theory and value orientation. He Shaojun, Liu Qiong, etc. conducted an in-depth analysis of the principles of realism in contemporary novels. Bai Ye emphasizes the spirit of realism and unique expression. Zhang Qinghua stressed that contemporary Chinese literature should pay tribute to ancient narratives. Zhang Jun focuses on the pursuit of value contained in the creation of a new culture of socialist realism. In the study of left-wing literature and Yan'an literature and art, the attention to concepts such as the people, workers, peasants, soldiers, and the masses has continued to become a hot topic in research. In particular, 2021 coincides with the 140th anniversary of Lu Xun's birth, and Lu Xun's research continues to deepen. Qiu Huanxing proposed literary politics as a third perspective in addition to national politics and cultural politics to analyze the political dimension of Lu Xun's thought. Sun Yu analyzes the connection between Lu Xun's works and Buddhist factors in Chinese culture. Huang Qiaosheng and Zhang Lihua discussed the literary complexity of Lu Xun's classic texts in depth from the stylistic and narrative levels. Yuan Xianxin and Chen Jie broke through the traditional text research methods, starting from language, sound and visuality, and conducted multi-faceted interpretations of Lu Xun's works.
In addition, Zhang Longxi, Fang Weigui, and Gao Xudong's expositions on world literature, Wang Xiangyuan and Li Yuejin's research on China's "oriental studies", and Ji Jianxun's combing of the history of Chinese comparative literature research are all worthy of attention.
Prospects for future literary research
Looking at the development of literature in 2021, it can be seen that the tension between theory and the times is becoming prominent, and the contemporary consciousness of theoretical construction is constantly increasing. The combination of literary research and literary practice is becoming closer, and the ideological and innovative nature of academic research is becoming a conscious pursuit. In the future, literary research should continue to be guided by Marxism, take root in the new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics, profoundly grasp the internal logic of the renewal and iteration of literary research, strengthen subjectivity, embrace diversity, and continuously promote the construction and innovation of discipline systems, academic systems and discourse systems.
Strengthen basic research and focus on breaking through key points. General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed that "it is necessary to aim at the forefront of science and technology in the world, strengthen basic research, and achieve major breakthroughs in forward-looking basic research and leading original achievements." Basic research is the source of the disciplinary system and has a unique position and an important role. Without a solid foundation for basic research, academic research lacks the fundamental guarantee for steady development; without the continuous innovation of basic disciplines, academic research lacks sufficient motivation to keep up with the times. As a basic discipline, literary research especially needs to continuously strengthen the research of basic theories, basic problems and basic concepts, and especially needs to focus on breakthroughs on major theoretical issues, so that the research results are forward-looking and leading.
Break down disciplinary barriers and promote integration. Disciplines constitute the structure of knowledge production and define the ideas, methods, and goals of academic production. The division of disciplines is not only a way to understand and explore the world, but also consciously or unconsciously redivising and reshaping the world. As far as the discipline of literature is concerned, on the one hand, the overall norms of the discipline are clear and self-contained; on the other hand, not only is the barrier between literary studies and other disciplines strict and difficult to dialogue, but the secondary disciplines of literature are also separated from each other and self-contained. In the face of complex literary reality and the realistic call of the times for literature and literary research, we must break down disciplinary barriers and seek new breakthroughs in theoretical height and ideological depth in a research attitude and academic pattern that is both adhered to and open.
Be committed to innovation and forge academic excellence. Innovation is the eternal theme and first driving force of literary research. The premise of innovation is to abide by the truth, that is, to follow the basic norms, basic laws and basic values of literary research; the path of innovation is mutual learning, that is, to face diversity with a broad mind and vision, and to shine in exchanges; the purpose of innovation is to forge academic excellence and serve academic development and social progress. Literary research should not forget the original, absorb foreign, face the future, be good at refining iconic concepts, have the courage to take the initiative to set topics, promote the construction of the "three major systems", interpret Chinese literature with academic discourse with Chinese characteristics and world vision, refine Chinese experience, carry forward the Chinese spirit, and show China's image.
Embrace the "great power of the country" and respond to the call of the times. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "The new journey of the new era is the historical orientation of contemporary Chinese literature and art. The broad masses of literary and art workers must profoundly grasp the theme of the times of national rejuvenation," "promote the cause of literature, cultivate the yuan with literature, establish the heart with literature, and cast the soul with literature, and write the creation of literature and art into the history of national rejuvenation and in the journey of the people's struggle." This is a call to literary and art workers, and it is also the basic guideline for accelerating the construction of the "three major systems" of literary research. Only by establishing a great historical outlook and a great view of the times and having a "great country" in mind can we feel the pulse of literary research from the pulse of the times, truly integrate literary research into the new path of Chinese-style modernization and the creation of new forms of human civilization, into the construction of a community with a shared future for mankind, and into the journey of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, truly worthy of the times and the people.
Author: Department of Literature, China Social Sciences Magazine
(Written by: Zhang Jie, Li Lin, Ma Tao, Chen Lingxiao, Ma Zheng, Yang Qiong, Fan Liwei)
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