1980年代以来,钱中文先生一直努力思考着一系列问题,诸如怎样继承和发扬民族精神文化传统,如何实现西方文艺思想的本土化转换,怎样建构合乎中国实际的理论体系等。《钱中文文集》收录了他1981年至2003年的论文,作者以缜密细致的研究,阐述了文学理论研究对象——“文学”的内涵; Since the 1980s, Mr. Qian Zhongwen has been working hard to consider a series of questions, such as how to inherit and carry forward the national spiritual and cultural traditions, how to realize the localization conversion of Western literature and art, and how to construct a theoretical system that is in line with China’s reality. His collection of papers from 1981 to 2003 in Qian Zhong Wen Ji includes the careful and meticulous research on the connotation of “literature” as the research object of literary theory.