A History of Modern Chinese Literature 1917—2000 (Part 2)

Author: Zhu Donglin, Zhu Xiaojin, Long Quanming (Editor-in-Chief)
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: This book traces the evolution of literary concepts as its thread, conducts an in-depth and logically clear review of the development history of Chinese literature over more than half a century based on extensive historical materials, and presents a new literary history work with modern significance and distinctive characteristics. At the 2004 Annual Meeting of the Teaching Guidance Committee of Chinese Studies under the Ministry of Education (Lijiang), the expert evaluation team composed of Liu Zhongshu, Zhu Liyuan, Wu Xiuming, Zhang Fugui, Hao Changhai, and others commented on the manuscript of this teaching material as follows: "《Chinese Modern Literature History 1917-2000》 traces the evolution of literary concepts as its thread, conducts an in-depth and logically clear review of the development history of Chinese literature over a century based on extensive historical materials, and becomes a new literary history work with modern significance and distinctive characteristics." The evaluation experts also put forward some suggestions for revision and adjustment. Based on these comments, the editors made further revisions to the manuscript. The main principles of the revision were to shorten the length according to the requirements of university textbooks, adjust chapters, refine and coordinate viewpoints, deepen analysis, and verify materials to make it more suitable for undergraduate teaching.