Abstract:

Chinese literary theory in the post May Fourth era should respond to the times and develop new discourses. Now we are encountering an unprecedented new opportunity. Thanks to modern new technologies and new media, Chinese cultural tradition has been revived in daily life world of Chinese people. In addition to the advantages of valuable technologies such as convenient, fast and flexible information acquisition we should try our best to avoid the disadvantages of superficiality, triviality and smoothness. Literature may bring them depth, and classical tradition may make them fine, elegant, gentle and sincere. As for classical poem writing, we haven′t seen a good poem created by AI till now, which shows that a poet embraces comprehensive capacities such as imagination, judgment, sympathy, humanism, ambition, and insights.

Key words: the WeChat era, graphic poetics, AI′s poem writing, Chinese literary theory