Abstract: The later period of the 20th century saw two stages of modern Chinese literature thoughts.In the 1980s,simple political criticism was given to modern Chinese literature thoughts,while in the 1990s a combination of necessary political criticism and deep theoretical criticism was in favor in mastering and introducing modern Chinese literature thoughts.There existed two ways in mastering modern Chinese literature thoughts,one was the practical way in writing history as was criticized by Hegel in his Shorter Logic,another was the scientific way to study history.Only by correctly mastering the relationship between modern Chinese literature thoughts and its social foundation can we really master the interior rules of modern Chinese literature thoughts and correctly use them to guide the development of modern Chinese literature thoughts.

Key words: modern Chinese literature thoughts, social foundation, stage, methodology, trend