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Based on the journals published from 1912 to 1949, this paper investigates the characteristics of Korean literary criticism published in China during the Republican Period. This study can not only advance the literary communication between China and South Korea, but also provide basic data for the longitudinal study of communication and acceptability of Korean literature in China. The existing scholarship relevant to the theme of this paper is based on modern Korean novels and poetry, merely studying Chinese translation of Korean literature and the acceptability, overlooking Chinese scholars’views and understanding of Korean literature. This is out of the fact that Korean literature, compared with Western and Japanese literature that featured realism, drew less attention from Chinese scholars. However, it was in the Republican Period that Chinese modern literature and academic studies flourished, so Korean literary criticism published then was able to reflect the heights foreign literature studies achievedin that era, and helpful to fully understand the acceptability of Korean literature within Chinese academia. Based on the variations in language for criticism, literary research methods, and textual features, this paper analyzes the characteristics of Korean literary criticism made by Chinese scholars during the Republican Period, demonstrating Chinese scholars’ different understanding, their acceptability of Korean literature and the characteristics of their researches at that time. In short, this study is of practical and referential significance for the present communication and research of Korean literary in China.