中国文学的历史至少可以追溯到3000多年前。它包括一脉相承、绵延至20世纪初叶的古代文学,也包括20世纪以来在文学观念、内容、语言诸方面已经发生全方位转型的现当代文学。
The history of Chinese literature can be traced to more than 3,000 years ago at least. It includes ancient literature before the early 20th century traceable to the same origin and modern and contemporary literature since the 20th century with fully changed literary concepts, contents and language.