Outline of the History of Chinese Literary Criticism -- Century Library

Author: Zhu Dongrun
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Publish Date: 2005-04-01
Features: This book is a significant work by the late renowned scholar, Professor Zhu Dongrun. It originated in 1931 and was officially published in 1994, compiling the results of Professor Zhu's more than a decade of teaching practice and academic research. It is recognized as a classic work. The book initially established the framework of the history of Chinese literary criticism. It then systematically examines the development of literary criticism in China from the pre-Qin period to the late Qing Dynasty using new literary concepts, striving to uncover the views and propositions that, to varying degrees, reflect the essential characteristics of literature during this process. It describes their evolution and appropriately addresses the literary criticism and changes that contradict them. This book offers an innovative description of the history of Chinese literary criticism. If carefully studied, we can draw many valuable insights from it. However, at the same time, we must also recognize that this is a work from nearly six decades ago, and moreover, it was written in an early stage of the development of the discipline of the history of Chinese literary criticism.