1999年,正值世纪之交,又是中国比较文学复兴的20周年纪念之时,刘献彪、刘介民教授主编的《比较文学教程》出版了.这真是合乎时宜,适应需要.人们常说,世纪之交往往是人类历史发展的转折时期.为什么呢?这是多次重复的历史事实给人的启示,只是一种直觉式的经验,讲不出多少道理.或者说,人们还没有能够悟到其中的道理.今天我们又面临着世纪之交,而且是千年之交,果然,又到了一个人类文化发展的转折关头.人类经过了复杂多变的20世纪,如今随着殖民体系的土崩瓦解、两大阵营的对峙和冷战的结束,以及整个世界格局的根本改变,一个多元文化相互交流、平等对话、共生共存的时代已经开始.几个世纪以来的西方文化占据世界文化主导地位的局面已被打破,东方文化正在从边缘地位向中心转移;东西方文化文学的平等交流已经成为共同的需要,而且比历史上任何时候都迫切地提到了一个重要的地位;和平与发展,交流与沟通,已经成为人们的普遍愿望.这并不是说 At the turn of the century, at the turn of the century, the 20th anniversary of the revival of comparative literature in China, the Comparative Literature Course edited by Professor Liu Xianbiao and Professor Liu Jiemin was really in line with the needs of the times. It is an epoch-making experience that can not be explained in many ways, or why people have not been able to realize the truth Today, we are confronted with the turn of the century, but also at the turn of the millennium, and sure enough, it has reached a turning point in the development of human culture.Humanity has experienced a complicated and changeable 20th century. Now that the colonial system has collapsed, The era of camp confrontation and the end of the Cold War as well as the fundamental changes in the pattern of the world as a whole has embraced a multi-cultural exchange, equal dialogue and coexistence and coexistence. The situation in which western cultures dominated the world for centuries has been broken, Eastern culture is shifting from the marginal position to the center; the equal exchange between East and West culture and literature has become a common need, and more than ever When they are urgently referred to an important position; peace and development, exchange and communication, has become a widespread desire is not to say.