The writing of the history of contemporary Chinese literature has changed a great deal in the past decades, and so has the concept of literary history.

The article discuss the awkward situation of writing about contemporary literature history from four aspects.

The difficultest thing of writing contemporary literature history is the eatablishment of value standard.

Unavoidable Conceptual Errors——Ideas about the two books on history of contemporary literature;

Thoughts on the Teaching of the History of Contemporary Literature;

This paper aims to pass to the necessity that Chinese Modern and contemporary literature teaching and research inside actual condition and considers, point out contemporary literature teaching now the principle adjust and bring up the new teaching model.

Emphasis on textual reading and analysis in Chinese modern and contemporary literature teaching will help students form an aesthetic understanding on literary works and a direct cognitive sense,help them improve writing ability for term and graduation papers and also help their creating ability to some degree.

After analyzing Chinese modern and contemporary literature in European universities and institutions,the simplest conclusion would be that European Chinese Studies experts have paid great attention to the Chinese works characterized by oriental physics,aesthetics and the Chinese language.

"The May 4th New Literature Movement" was once regarded as the starting point of modern Chinese literary history,but such a view blinded the real progress of modernization of Chinese literature before the May 4th Movement and neglected the fact that many literary works before that great movement had already had the preliminary modernity.