Illustrated History of a Hundred Years of Chinese Literature (Volumes 1, 2, and 3)

Author: Yu Runqi, Chief Editor
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Publish Date: 2002-06-01
Features: This literary history focuses on temporality, primarily examining the literary landscape from the late 19th to the late 20th century through the lens of integrated literature of the era. At the same time, it emphasizes the spatial existence of the century-long literary history, encompassing regional literatures to form a unified literary history of regional integration. The century of Chinese history has undergone profound changes, suffering from both the aggression of imperialism and the corruption of bourgeois consciousness, as well as artificial encroachment by political ideologies. This has also given rise to regional literatures. If different regional literatures are observed not primarily from an ideological perspective but from the perspective of literature itself, it is undeniable that they all belong to the unified modern Chinese literature. Taiwan literature, Hong Kong literature, and Macau literature naturally fall within the scope of the century-long Chinese literary history. Therefore, this literary history incorporates relevant chapters to discuss the literatures of Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau, highlighting their diverse literary achievements and contributions to the modernization of the century-old literature, while also demonstrating the spatial completeness and integration of the literary history. The formal feature of this literary history is its rich illustrations and photographs, which are not commonly found in many 20th-century literary histories. Whether it is photographs of writers, autographs of writers, manuscripts of works, book covers of works, newspaper layouts, or magazine covers, they all take on new significance when their historical dust is wiped away.