Pre-Qin and Han Literature Historiography (Series of Studies on Historical Materials of Chinese Classical Literature)

Author: Cao Daoheng
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Publish Date: 2005-02-01
Features: The study of Chinese classical literature is, overall, an extremely vast undertaking, and there is a need to understand, analyze, and design the overall structure of this project. The structure of classical literature research is roughly similar to that of construction, which can be divided into two aspects: the infrastructure layer and the superstructure layer. The infrastructure serves as the fundamental conditions for various specialized research and has relatively long-term stability. The study of classical literature historical materials primarily involves collecting, reviewing, understanding, and utilizing historical materials, making its main object of study the aforementioned infrastructure. However, it should be said that it encompasses both aspects. Its scope may be even broader, including any historical records, geographical texts, notes of various genres, and social and folk records that are related to writers and works. This series of historical material books cannot be replaced by works of any genre, viewpoint, or literary history. Whether writing a literary history, researching writers and works of any era, or whether it is teachers or students, all will refer to this series of historical material books.