寓居美國的夏濟安、李歐梵和王德威等臺灣赴美學者，是如何在異質環境中接過當年大陸「學院派」的學術旗幟，在一個文化沉寂的時代重建大學的「教育空間」和「文化場域」，又是如何在反思激進文化的同時，將「純文學」與「感時憂國」精神加以聯繫，並通過重審「晚清」與「五四」，最後使美國「中國現代文學研究」對中國大陸現當代文學的「挪借」成為了可能？本論文認為，最直接地催生了這一學術「挪借」潮流的，是中國大陸30年來「改革開放」所營造的社會與文化的大環境，比如「革命與啟蒙」的衰落與「自我敘述」的興起，以及近年來出現的「學院研究熱」等。

This paper discusses how the scholars migrated from Taiwan to the U.S., including Xia Ji-an, Li Ou-fan, and Wang De-wei, inherited the academic thoughts of the "academicism" of Mainland China at that time in such a different environment and rebuilt the "educational space" and "cultural environment" of universities in such a silent era of culture? And how did they connect the "pure literature" with the spirit of "obsession with China" concurrently with their introspection of radical culture and eventually make it possible to "borrow" contemporary literature of Mainland China to the "studies of Chinese contemporary literature" in America through reviewing the literature in "late Qing Dynasty" and the "May Forth Movement"? This paper suggests that this academic trend of "borrowing" was directly originated from the policy of "reform and opining up" for the last thirty years in the society and big cultural environment of Mainland China, such as the decline of "revolution and enlightenment", the rise of "self-description", and the "passion for the studies of academicism" aroused in recent years.