２０世纪中国文论的发展走过了一条极不平坦的道路。回眸晚清文论、“五四”文论、３０年代左联文论、４０年代延安文论、５０年代至文革间的专制文论、新时期文论这一发展线索，我们可以清晰地看到，自王国维迄今的中国文论的发展经历了从审美论到工具论再到审美论的历史... The development of Chinese literary theory in 20th century has gone through a very uneven path. Reviewing the late Qing literary theory, the May Fourth literary theory, the 1930s literary theory of the Left-wing Writers, the literary theory of Yan’an in the 1940s, the autocratic literary theory from the 1950s to the Cultural Revolution and the literary theory in the new era, we can clearly see Up to now, the development of Chinese literary theory since Wang Guowei has gone through the history from aesthetic theory to instrumentalism to aesthetic theory ...