鸦片战争一声炮响,震开了尘封已久的国门,“睁眼向洋看世界”成为百年来先进中国人负笈四方、上下求索的真实写照。于是,作为主导中国近现代建设的重要力量,留学生登上了历史舞台。而留学生文学作为现代中国社会转型的一份特殊的精神记录,也为我们提供了一个以国人视角观察世界变化及自身转变的生动渠道。若以时代划界.留学生文学可以分为清未民初、五四时代、二战前后、改革年代和新世代五个时期。这五个时期的留学生文学在中国乃至全球的历史变迁中.都呈现出各具时代风貌的鲜明特色。 After the Opium War, the gunshots were heard and the long-awaited country opened its doors. The “eyes open to the outside world” became the true portrayal of the advanced Chinese in the past century. Thus, as an important force that dominates the construction of modern China, foreign students boarded the stage of history. Foreign student literature, as a special spiritual record in the social transformation of modern China, also provides us with a vivid channel for observing the changes in the world and its own transformation from a Chinese perspective. If the era of demarcation, student literature can be divided into the Qing Dynasty, the May 4th era, before and after World War II, the reform era and a new generation of five periods. During the historical changes in China and even in the world, the students’ literature of these five periods all showed distinctive features with different characteristics of the times.