The Avant-garde Forgotten——Re-evaluation of Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies

Under the stimulation and enlightenment of western literature,Mandarin ducks and Butterflies begins its transformation toward traditional literature in the course of culture collision and culture confrontation between the western and Chinese.It transforms and tests novel style in the practice of translation and creation,forming some new styles and changing the narrative pattern.Mandarin ducks and Butterflies,as modern literature,shows its different tradition from serious literature of the May Forth by paying attention to the everyday life and attaching importance to the function of amusement.All the elements make it the avant-garde literature.