A: Ever since the May 4th Movement, our concern for modern Chinese literature has maintained a tradition of literature as a channel for moral instruction, or to use Hsia Chih-ching's words, "sympathy for the time and concern for the nation." The time we have been in sympathy with is the May 4th period, and the nation we fear for is the Republic of China.
答：自「五四」以來，我們對中國現代文學所賦予的關注，還是延續文以載道的傳統，或者用夏志清說的話「感時憂國」﹘﹘我們感嘆的是「五四」那個時代，憂慮的是中華民國。