The impact of modernism in the West on Chinese society at the end of the1970 s led to a drastic change in literary concepts and the new ideas of fiction creation in China, thus resulting in the beginning of Chinese contemporary pioneering novels.

• 本文着重研究70年代末西方现代主义思潮对中国社会的冲击,从而引发文学观念的骤变与小说创作上的创新与变革,出现中国当代先锋小说的初期形态。