中國文學研究新趨勢呈現三個特點：一是把中國文學放在世界文學格局中研究，尋求東方與西方的對話與溝通；二是文學研究從單一格局走向綜合研究，吸收了文化學、民俗學、語言學、人類學等學科知識，尤以現代心理學的介入最為顯著，精神分析學、原型批評、女性主義等介入成為本世紀中國文學研究最大的變化；三是尋找新的文學本體論，即接受美學，認識到文學史是文學在各時代之接受史。本文尤其提出建構“中國視境”之重要性，並對兩岸之文學研究現狀提出剴切的意見。
The new trend of Chinese literary study contains three characteristics: Firstly, Chinese literature is put among the world literature, in order to pursue dialogue and communication between the east and the west. Secondly, literary study develops from singleness to synthesis.
It absorbed culture、folklore、philology、Anthropology and so on. Especially, psychoanalysis、Archetype criticism and Feminist criticism have become the main stream of the Chinese literary study in the 20 century. Thirdly, Chinese scholars find new literary-ontology, such as Aesthetics of reception, they realize that literary is the one of reader reception in every time. In this article, the writer emphasizes the importance of constructing. ‘Chinese horizon’ and gives an apropos advice about the situation of literary study between Taiwan and Chinese continent.
