Abstract: There are closed relationships between literary production,consumption and political consumption under the precondition of political priority in the history of Chinese literary criticism.In literary creation,political consumption is mainly reflected in the authors’ interpretation and deduction of politics,that is,whether literature is to express politics directly or to hide it.In literary consumption,political consumption is mainly reflected in the readers’ excavating and sharing of political factors,that is,whether they interpret the political factors as far-fetched or through rational reading.As the starting point to study the relationship between literature and politics,political consumption determines the direction of this relationship.According to Marxist theory of esthetics,politics in literature should be the sensibility representation of human nature instead of power arena.

Key words: political consumption, political reality, symbolic politics, literary criticism