Abstract:

The research targets and theoretical methods of traditional folkloristics are limited in the modern context. Conforming to the development of times, Chinese folkloristics needs to construct new theories and methods to deal with the influence of urbanization, modernization and globalization as well as the new changes of contemporary folklore. This is the urgent task for the transformation of folkloristics. The significant changes of people's lifestyle in the age of science, technology and information call for the birth of modern folkloristics, which may not understand itself as a discipline, but new research on modernity. Modern folkloristics shall study the urban society of modernity and the lifestyle of the new social groups in the city.

Key words: modern folkloristics, discipline transformation, city