Abstract: In the new era, new requirements and expectations centering on stronger confidence in Chinese culture and the standpoint of Chinese cultural value have been raised to the research on Chinese modern literature. In such circumstances, the task of learning lessons from the history of Chinese modern literature research, correcting biased opinions, and making up shortages in order to return to the standpoint of Chinese culture and improve the overall academic level in the related research is becoming pressing and important. To be more specific, it requires the establishment of an academic system and a value standard based on the knowledge linage of Chinese modern literature and the spiritual core of the exquisite Chinese traditional culture in the modern transformation, of a academic concept of cultural compatibility and reference, of an academic path integrating the ancient and modern times, the Chinese and the western cultures, of an academic standpoint of learning lessons from the history of literature, of research methods with the core of Chinese traditional scholarship and supplement of western methods, of a discourse system with the foundation of the exquisite Chinese traditional cultural spirit enriched by western academic concepts and discourses, of an academic objective of assisting the progress of the current literature, scholarship and culture by investigating the law of history and realistic possibility for the evolution and innovation of literature, and of an academic pursuit of making profounder and broader academic contributions to culture, literature and art. It is aspired that the research on Chinese modern literature will be pushed to a new level by the unremitting efforts in the academic contribution, the essence of which is the return to the standpoint of Chinese culture.