在资深的现代文学研究者中，支克坚先生无疑是写得少而精的一位。他的半生的学术心 血都尽萃于这本《中国现代文艺思潮论》(1999年12月，兰州大学出版社出版)中。不待说 ，在新旧世纪交替之际支先生收拾出版他这20年来的论文，显然带有自我回顾和自我总结的 意味，这一点支先生 Of the veteran modern-day literature researchers, Mr. Kirk Keat is undoubtedly one of the few who wrote the book. His half-life academic efforts have done his best in this “theory of modern Chinese literature and art” (December 1999, Lanzhou University Press). Needless to say, during the turn of the century and the new, Mr Branch picked up and published his 20-year papers apparently with self-review and self-summary meanings,