A State and Prospect of Korean-Chinese Literary Criticism in the New Century - Focusing on Literary Criticism in 2012 -

Chunzhi Zhang

It has been a decade since the new century and passed a three yearsafter the second decade of the century. At this time, this studyinvestigates the literary criticism of Korean-Chinese literature in 2012 inorder to evaluate the achievement of Korean-Chinese literary criticismduring the past three decades of China's reform and opening up. Doraji, the Korean-Chinese literary magazine, has its own series ofarticles, named Bimonthly Criticism, on literary criticism by contrastwith other journals that only give a brief commentary on literaturespublished in it. The articles in Doraji shed light on renowned writersin Jirin(吉林) area, and the other literary journals focus on theanalysis of authors and works reviewed by old-timer critics andgraduate students. These show the feature of Korean-Chinese literarycriticism. In Addition, the debate over so-called Totem poetry written by NanYong Qian(南永前) has been contentious for a few years. What is atissue in some articles published in 2012 is still the matter with regardto the appropriacy of writing material and the possibility of ecologicalliterature. Moreover, studies on literary theory and literary history form an important part of Korean-Chinese literary criticism. The serialarticles of Korean-Chinese literature in 1950s, written by Wu XiangShun(喬宮糠), reveal such an achievement of literary criticism. Regardless of the circumstance that a shift in generations is not yet accomplished, it could be said that the literary criticism of Korean-Chinese in the new century have been carrying out its due mission. It is definitely possible for both of established and prospective critics to make their best endeavors to improve Korean-Chinese literature. The community, however, is not without its problems. It is not exceptional that prospective researchers often leave the field of literary criticism because of their precarious lives. I hope that promising critics would have a chance to contribute to the development of Korean-Chinese literature.

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