中文系在当代文学活动中正面对着新的角色定位问题，为担当这些角色，必须处理好几层关系：读写教学与理论研究的关系；捍卫和继承文学传统与介入当代文学活动的关系；培养职业读者与培养学生的文学资质的关系；文学在今天的多元存在与深入研究各种亚文学和各种文本间的关系。 Chinese Department is facing new roles in contemporary literary activities. To fulfill these roles, it is necessary to deal with several layers of relations: the relationship between reading and writing teaching and theoretical research; the relationship between the protection and inheritance of literary traditions and the intervention in contemporary literature; The relationship between professional readers and cultivating students’ literary qualifications; the multiple existence of today’s literature and in-depth study of the relationship between various kinds of Asian literature and various kinds of texts.