The Influence of Foreign Literature on Chinese Contemporary Literature

Among the Chinese writers of the twentieth Century, almost all of them were not influenced by foreign literature. In their works, both novels, poems and prose, drama, more or less, can see the shadow of foreign literature. In Fetchism, Lu Xun once wrote: "without new persons and fetching, without new literature and art." Indeed, in the development of the New Culture Movement in the twentieth Century, the modern famous writers represented by Lu Xun, Guo Moruo, Mao Dun, Ba Jin, Lao She and Cao Yu are all connected by foreign literature. Almost all of their literary works are directly or indirectly influenced by foreign literature.