Subjectivity and objectivity, regularity and purposefulness are dialectical and integrate in human social practice centered by material production, which makes social practice ascend to the height of freedom. It also adds aesthetic character and factors to varieties of social practice, including material production, spiritual production, and speech practice, and generates a pure aesthetic activity and its crystallization——beauty and art. Thus, we should stick to the practiceaestheticsbased literary theory in our effort to develop a contemporary Chinacharacteristic literary theory to reveal the integrity between beauty and appreciation of beauty and between artistic regularity and purposefulness and gradually substitute the view of language game with a view of free practice in spiritual and speech production.

interpretative literary theory; literary theory in contemporary China; view of language game; dialectics; theory of free practice