Critique of the Chinese Anthology

Author: Zou Yunhu
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Publish Date: 2002-07-01
Features: This book attempts to conduct a comprehensive review and study of the vast literary anthologies of ancient China from a critical perspective. The book is divided into six chapters: the first five chapters focus on researching Chinese classical literary anthologies as selections that undertake the function of criticism, their origins, and their relationship with contemporary literary trends and literary criticism; the sixth chapter primarily examines the critical principles, mechanisms, and methods of Chinese classical literary anthologies as a form of critical approach. The book is approximately 200,000 words in length. The book includes content such as: Han, Wei, and the Six Dynasties: the rise of anthologies; the literary trends of the Tang and Five Dynasties and their anthologies; the literary trends of the Song and Yuan dynasties and their anthologies; the literary trends of the Ming dynasty and their anthologies.