Abstract: Qu Qiubai is a literature theorist who came from classic Confucian world to modern Marxism literature theory.His thought on realism started from his investigation in Russia.Qu’s fundamental literature view was always guided by the evaluation based on social values.When he accepted communist belief,Qu Qiubai’s classical literary thought linked up rapidly with the need of revolutionary cause in pragmatism and became “the most sensible realism”.However,in the era when class was the only standard to classify one’s identity,the “most sensible realism” could only become an intermediate being in the history of modern Chinese literary thought.

Key words: Qu Qiubai, literary thought, &ldquo, The Most Sensible Realism&rdquo, an intermediate being