一把40～70年代中国文学作为一个整体来考察,需要跨越一个圈外人很难理解的学术壁垒,那就是“中国现代文学”与“中国当代文学”这一专业限制。“当代文学”这个概念被建构出来之后“当代文学”就变成为一个与“现代文学”对等的概念,被用来特指1949年以后的中国文学。直到今天,这一学科分期仍然是我们从事“现代文学”与“当代文学”研究和教学的基本模式。 A survey of Chinese literature from the 40s to the 70s as a whole needs to cross academic barriers that are difficult for outsiders to understand. That is the professional limitation of “Chinese modern literature” and “Contemporary Chinese Literature”. After the concept of “contemporary literature” was constructed, “contemporary literature” became an equivalent of “modern literature” and was used to refer specifically to Chinese literature after 1949. Up to now, the staging of this subject is still the basic model for our research and teaching of “Modern Literature” and “Contemporary Literature”.