Look into the differences in theme, language, form, artistic technique between Chinese and Western literature on the basis of the comparison between Faulkner and Zhou Li-bo.

• 第二章，从抗战时民族形式讨论入手，考察在延安及其他地区的热闹讨论中，在三十年代就对民族形式问题进行争论的周立波，却保持沉默的原因。