20世纪80年代,海外学者提出“没有晚清,何来五四”的质疑,明清至“五四”才被看作一个联系的文化整体。以内在理路考察明清至“五四”的文化发展,可以发现中国的文化重心由雅文学向俗文学下移,其背后的根本推动力不在西方文化的影响,而是在激烈社会文化震荡中中国知识分子自身言说的需要。 In the 1980s, overseas scholars raised the question of “no late Qing Dynasty and the May Fourth Movement”, and the “May Fourth Movement” between the Ming and Qing Dynasties was regarded as a connected whole culture. By examining the cultural development from the Ming and Qing Dynasties to the May Fourth Movement within the inner logic, we can find that the fundamental driving force of China’s cultural center of gravity from Ya-literary to popular literature is not the influence of western culture, but intense social culture In the turmoil, Chinese intellectuals need to speak for themselves.