The ideological trend of “counter-West centralism” is becomingmore and more obvious in the academic circle of Chinese literary theory fromthe 1980s to the beginning of this century.This article regards a certain numberof phenomena as surveying targets,and analyzes that this ideological trendis embodied not only in evident purposes,slogans and views,but also in there-thinking of education history and in the work of literary material and thereestablishing of criticism history.This article holds that the combination of twokinds of opposed learning trends for study and application respectively would behelpful in breaking through the barriers of single-sided logic,emphasizing nativeliterary tradition,participating in contemporary literature practice and definingChinese literary theory in the 21 st century.