Liang Qichao in Transition from Old Chinese Literature to New Vernacular Literature in Modern China
Abstract
Liang in the late 19th early 20th century, based on political reform needs improvement, inspired by the foreign culture and the arts, in the novel, drama, poetry, essays and literary theory and other fields, are ground-breaking achievements. His enthusiasm and extraordinary courage through reforms, creating a new text on the new style, and personally engaged in the translation and creation, full of passion for the new literature was born advocate running for the promotion of Chinese literature from the traditional shackles of new blood as well as to the world , played a leading role irreplaceable. Liang opened the new generation of literary culture, its effects, not only changed the face of traditional Chinese literature, the emergence of a number of new modern literary works of literature for literature's development has injected new vigor and vitality, and cultivating a group of committed writers and literary innovation theory critics, and the "May Fourth" times completely prepared the conditions for the literary revolution