Literary Works Selection: Ancient Chinese Literature Volume

Author: Zhao Jinzhao, Wu Shaomin, Editors
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Publishing Date: 2003-08-01
Features: This book focuses on improving students' literary appreciation skills. The selected works adhere to the unity of ideological content and artistic quality, pay attention to the diversity of artistic styles and literary genres, and strive to present the basic development of literary history. In terms of selection, it avoids repetition with middle school textbooks as much as possible. The book is divided into three volumes: Ancient Chinese Literature, Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature, and Foreign Literature. Each volume has an introduction to introduce the basic development of the relevant literary history. The arrangement of works is generally based on chronological order of time and chronological order of authors' birth, but also considers multiple factors such as style and school. In terms of specific arrangement, there are slight differences among the three books based on the situation. The selected works can adopt authoritative versions. Each work is accompanied by an author bio and a brief analysis, and some works also have concise annotations to assist students in self-study. For convenience of reading, the Ancient Chinese Literature volume provides annotations for recurring terms in different works.