Since the May4th Movement, Chinese literary theory has obviously gone through three stages of development, namely, the stage of “wholesale westernization”, the stage of “Chinesization of western literary theory” and the current stage of “Chinese and western fusion”. For the coming of this last stage, three theories have been prepared to cope with it. One of these theories is “neorationalism”, which realizes a Chinese and western fusion both ideologically and methodologically. Another is “modern transformation of ancient literary theory”, which projects the task and means of Chinese and western fusion. The last is “Chinesestyle cultural poetics”, which is a innovative construct, superior final model and necessary endresult from the course of realizing Chinese and western fusion.

Chinese literary theory; Chinese and western fusion; Chinesestyle cultural poetics