Research on Southern and Northern Dynasties Literature

Author: Cao Daoheng
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Publish Date: 1998-10-01
Features: Although this small book was written rather hastily and some opinions are not yet fully mature, for the author, it has been lingering in his mind for a long time. As early as the early 1980s, when the comrades in the Ancient Room of the Literature Research Institute were contemplating the compilation work of a multi-volume history of Chinese literature, the author thought of a problem: that in the past, critics and many literary history works often only discussed the Southern Dynasties but not the Northern Dynasties, and as a result, the Northern Dynasties' literature was largely overlooked in those works. This book takes the literature of the Southern Dynasties and the Northern Dynasties as the research topic. It places them on an equal footing and conducts comprehensive studies from multiple aspects such as social, political, historical, and cultural. It identifies the similarities and differences between the Northern and Southern literatures and explores their profound social and historical reasons, making an in-depth and detailed dialectical analysis to reach convincing conclusions.