| Abstract |
This paper attempts to trace the phenomenon of literary exchange in the course of history, to study the mutual influences in the wake of this exchange in order to penetrate and show what in means in the passage of Chinese literaya history. This article sonsists of four parts: First, as far as the ways of literary exchange are concerned, there are several kinds of exchange, bidirectional, multidirectional, synchronous, diafhronic, natural, artificial,etc. Second, there are several phenomena of literary exchange in Chinese literary history: the exchange between the South ane the North, between the East and the West, during the Han Dynasty, between China and foreign countyies. There are four periods of literary interchangge in Chinese literary history: during the period before the Jin Dynasty until the Western and Eastern Han Dynasties: the Wei, Jin ,Southern and Nothern Dynasties; the Sui,Tang. Northern Song, and Southern Song Dynasties; the Yuan, Ming, and Qing Dynasties. The third part is about the influence of literary exchange on the development of literature. In order to trace the mutual influences of literary exchange from various angles, I shall discuss the permeation through the contents of literature, the change of the aspects of the promontion of literary rebirth. The fourth part and concluusion talks about the circumstances of contemporary Chinese literature, the necessity of a full exchange, and the significance of this historic stage in retrospect. |
