胡适是中国新文学运动的重要倡导者。以今天的眼光看,他当时取得的成绩,亦显得相当特异。上世纪初,胡适还不过是一位留学生,可他的几篇关于新文学主张的文章竟然在国内风靡一时,引发极大的震动。胡适并非主修文学,他的这些新文学主张,由何而来呢?通过翻读胡适日记,我们可以看出,胡适对文学一直有着浓厚兴趣。在留学期间,他更是广泛阅读到大量西方经典及流行文艺作品。这些作品,为他后来新文学观念的形成起了极大作用,更为他倡导新文学“垫”了底。这底子的深厚,扎实,是与胡适下大工夫攻读互为关联的。这里,我们不妨以胡适对西方经典作家莎士比亚的阅读为例,来了解其修习情况。窥斑见豹,作为中西文化交流的一个证明。 Hu Shih is an important advocate of the Chinese new literature movement. Judging from today’s perspective, the achievements he made at that time also appeared to be quite specific. At the beginning of last century, Hu Shih was no more than a student studying abroad. However, several articles about his claim in new literature actually made him become all the rage in the country and triggered a great shock. Hu Shih was not majoring in literature. Where did he come from these new literary ideas? By reading Hu Shi’s diary, we can see that Hu Shih has always had a keen interest in literature. During his study abroad, he read a great deal of Western classical and popular works. These works contributed greatly to the later formation of his new literary concept, and even advocated the new literature for him. The deep foundation of this foundation is solid and it is related to Hu Shi’s great efforts in studying for the next big one. Here, we may wish to Hu Shi on the Western classic writer Shakespeare’s reading as an example to understand their practice. See spot leopard, as a proof of the cultural exchange between China and the West.