Ancient Chinese Literature: II: Sui-Tang to Modern Era

Author: Du Yu et al.
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: This book is dedicated to studying the history of the creation and development of ancient Chinese literature. It examines the main content of ancient Chinese literature in various historical periods, its flourishing development, and artistic principles, explaining the relationship between important writers and their works and the society of their time, as well as their status and role in literary development. It introduces and evaluates the lives, thoughts, and creative activities of historical representative writers. It analyzes the ideological content and artistic features of representative works.
Objective Requirements: Through the teaching of this course, students should gain a fundamental understanding of the emergence and development of ancient Chinese literature in China. They should develop a comprehensive and systematic understanding of the great achievements and basic developmental lines and patterns of ancient Chinese literature, and make scientific evaluations of the ideological and artistic values of representative writers and important works in each historical period. This will cultivate and enhance students' ability to initially apply the stance, viewpoints, and methods of Marxism in independent reading, analysis, and evaluation of ancient Chinese literature. It will also improve students' ideological and cultural literacy, sense of national pride and patriotism, as well as aesthetic qualities, contributing to the development of new Chinese culture.
The book is divided into six parts: Literature of the Sui, Tang, Five Dynasties, Literature of the Song, Liao, and Jin, Yuan Dynasty Literature, Ming Dynasty Literature, Qing Dynasty Literature, and Modern Literature.