Abstract:

 Contemporary Chinese literary theories began to embrace postmodernism in the 1980s. For almost 40 years of theoretical travel, postmodernism has mixed and mingled with contemporary Chinese literary theories ranging from philosophical ideas to social culture to literary criticism with such channels as “theory introduction”, “concept analysis”, “mechanical application” and “criticism campaign” to realize discourse collocation. Consequently, this leads to rigid new theories, obvious interdisciplinary theoretical research, and protruding obligatory theoretical interpretation. As an important “borrowed theory”, postmodernism has made Chinese literary theories fully merged into “theoretical globalization”. However, following the theoretical travel, discourse application and knowledge transmission, Chinese postmodernist literary theories are beset with the lack of homogeneity between forms of problems and expression of thoughts, causing chaotic, shallow, simplified and repetitive discourse space in expressing thought, reflecting a hardened state of thought in the construction of contemporary Chinese literary theories and constraining the depth of contemporary Chinese literary theories in criticizing the texture and mechanism of contemporary thought and culture.

Key words: postmodernism, Chinese literary theories, Chinese experience, the context of globalization