在为高等教育出版社撰写《二十世纪中国文学史》的过程中,我们编写组遇到过许多问题,也思考和解决过不少问题。要在这里把这些问题都陈述出来,那就可能过于琐细冗长。我只能选择现代文学史的时间、空间和语言三个特定向度来做些探讨,或许可以看到当前中国现代文学史研究需要面对的一些主要内容。先从时间这个向度说起。叫做《二十世纪中国文学史》,实际不止是二十世纪,而是向前伸到了十九世纪的八十年代,前后涉及的大约有一百二十年的文学历史,这是中国现代 In writing the “History of Chinese Literature in the Twentieth Century” for the Higher Education Press, many problems have been encountered by our writing team, and many problems have also been considered and solved. To state these questions here, it may be too long and tedious. I can only choose the three particular dimensions of time, space and language in the history of modern literature for discussion. Perhaps I can see some of the main contents that China needs to face in the study of modern Chinese history. Speaking of time from the first degree. Called “Twentieth Century History of Chinese Literature”, actually more than the 20th century, but moved forward to the eighties of the nineteenth century, before and after about 120 years of literary history, which is China’s modern