Abstract
The study on the editions of contemporary Chinese literary history has profound significance for the compilation of literary history, academic studies of literature, and disciplinary construction as well as scholastic development. The call for "re-writing literary history" in the late 1980s in response to the paradigm shift in literary history writing is taken as the dividing line of two periods, and the paper proceeds to compare the different editions and examine the limitations in the revisions in the two periods. The paper points out that the shift from the political to aesthetic or cultural perspective is a significant breakthrough in writing literary history but it also implicates inner conflicts and historical limitations which cannot be resolved merely within the boundary of concept innovation. The paper argues that only through the support of positive historical materials and the cross-evidence between concept and historical materials can literary history writing and revision make more contribution to academic continuation and construction.
First Page
26
Last Page
35
Recommended Citation
Wu, Xiuming, and Tao Zhang. 2013. "Continuation and Construction: On the Edition Study of Contemporary Chinese Literature History and Its Limitation." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 33, (6): pp.26-35. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol33/iss6/8
