Lectures on the History of Chinese Medieval Literature

Author: Liu Shipei (compiled by Cheng Qianfan and Cao Hong)
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Publish Date: 2000-12-01
Features: This book is a representative work of the renowned scholar of traditional Chinese culture, Liu Shipei. The term "medieval" refers to the period from the late Han Dynasty to the Southern Dynasties of Song, Qi, Liang, and Chen. This was a highly active era in the history of Chinese literary development, serving as a transitional period. Liu Shipei had profound expertise in this era and employed a meticulous and insightful compilation method in this book, categorizing numerous relevant materials into distinct sections with clear threads. In the annotations, he provided illuminating insights into tracing the origins and clarifying the divisions of literary schools, making the complex literary transformations of this period easily understandable while vividly reflecting its literary style and splendor. To better assist readers in reading this book, we have also published Liu Shipei's Studies on the Literary Masters of the Han and Wei Dynasties and the Six Dynasties and Methods for Collecting Materials on Literary Histories. Additionally, renowned classical literature expert Cheng Qianfan has written an introduction to this book.