History of Chinese Popular Literature - China Library · Issue 2

Author: Zheng Zhenduo
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Publishing Date: 2005-01-01
Features: What is "popular literature"? Popular literature refers to works that do not grace the halls of high culture, are not valued by scholars and officials, but are popular among the people, becoming what the masses love and enjoy. This book cites a large amount of literature and fully discusses the rise and fall, evolution, and development of five categories of "popular literature" - poetry, fiction, drama, narrative literature, and game literature - from the pre-Qin period to the late Qing Dynasty, pioneering and laying the foundation for the study of Chinese "popular literature."