Abstract: After over a decade' s ardent controversy in the new century, the field of literature science in China has gradually calmed down, and some important problems get foregrounded. The present paper elaborates on such basic issues as the relationships between literature and other subjects, between literary theory and cultural reality, and between Chinese and western literary theory resources. It proposes that "the unworthiness of the name" provides literature science with expanded space for interdisciplinary research, targeting  "returning to the literary per se" and enhancing historical consciousness in literature science. The new cultural reality asks for new literary research theory and methodology to achieve more effective interpretation, which is right one of the tasks of literature science. A view of both the academic history based on Chinese and western literary theory resources and a revisit to the basic problems in literary research will contribute to eradicating our academic position and questioning approach in face of the '"new cultural reality".

Key words: Key words： 〖WTBZ]literature science, interdisciplinary boundaries, new cultural reality, literary theory resources