中国当代文学于1978年前后发生重大艺术变革,在整个新时期由复兴而繁荣,获得了巨大的发展,堪称近二十几年中国文化中最富有创造性、最多实际成果的门类。虽然在1980年代的后期,当代文学就开始失去轰动效应,但是文学创造的速度并没有减缓,各类文体尤其是小说和散文的创作质量在 Chinese contemporary literature took a major artistic transformation around 1978 and was rejuvenated and prospered throughout the new period, gaining tremendous growth and becoming the most creative and practical achievement of Chinese culture in the past two decades. Although contemporary literature began to lose its sensational effect in the late 1980s, the speed of literary creation did not slow down. The quality of creation of various genres, especially fiction and prose,