首先,我要代表编写组全体成员感谢各位领导和学者朋友们在这个周末放弃了休息赶到文学馆来开会,有好几位还是从遥远的外地(远到澳门、上海、长春、济南)赶到北京来的,对各位这种为学术而忘我工作的精神,我实在非常感动和钦佩。在这里,我要向与会的各位先生表达我们诚挚的感谢和敬意!我简要汇报有关这部教材的一些情况。教育部高教司希望我主编一部现代文学史教材,是1992年提出来的,但当时因为有《中国现代文学史教学大纲》等 First of all, on behalf of all the members of the compilation team, I would like to thank all the leaders and scholars and friends who gave up their rest this weekend and went to the Literature Hall to meet. Several of them arrived from far away places (far to Macao, Shanghai, Changchun and Jinan) From Beijing, I am very touched and admired by all of you for this academic and selfless work. Here, I would like to express my sincere thanks and respect to all the gentlemen present at this meeting. I briefly report some facts about this textbook. The Higher Education Division of the Ministry of Education wants me to compile a teaching material on the history of modern literature, which was put forward in 1992, but because at that time there was a “syllabus for the history of modern Chinese literature”