The author raises a problem of genesis of the modern genre of literary autobiography in China, examines the process of evolution of autobiographical forms from ancient times to the first half of the twentieth century, covers the precedents works of the Chinese tradition and notes their typological and specific features. It seems essential to emphasize that the article conducts the detailed analysis of the periodization of the development of the genre at present stage and traces the influence of social and cultural factors on its formation and development. The author comes to the conclusion that the quite late formation of the genre was conditioned by a long “conservation” of the Chinese autobiographical tradition and a late integration into the world literary process, as well as the “ossification” of traditional moral and ethical norms hindering the development of self-consciousness as in Western countries.
作者提出了中国文学自传现代体裁的起源问题，考察了自传形式从古代到二十世纪上半叶的演变过程，涵盖了中国传统的先例作品，并指出了它们的类型学和 具体功能。 需要强调的是，本文对现阶段体裁的发展周期进行了详细分析，并追溯了社会文化因素对其形成和发展的影响。 作者得出的结论是，该流派的较晚形成是由于对中国自传传统的长期“保存”和对世界文学过程的较晚整合，以及传统道德和伦理规范的“僵化”所致。 像西方国家一样阻碍了自我意识的发展。