This book briefly introduces the course of Chinese literature’s development in the past thousands of years and focuses on key writers’ works to help readers feel the beauty of Chinese literature and learn about the existence and mental world of Chinese people in literary works.
The history of Chinese literature can be traced to more than 3,000 years ago at least. It includes ancient literature before the early 20th century traceable to the same origin and modern and contemporary literature since the 20th century with fully changed literary concepts, contents and language.
Li Chunyu, Ph.D., is a professor and M.A. supervisor at Beijing Language and Culture University, mainly engaging in teaching and research of Chinese modern and contemporary literature and culture and international Chinese education. In recent years, he published more than 40 academic essays in domestic core social sciences journals and participated in or completed as person in charge several provincial and departmental research projects. Representative works include Modern Transformation of Publishing Culture and Chinese Literature, Beijing Culture Examined from a Foreign Perspective, Chinese Modern Literary Materials and Research, Comments on Cao Yu in 70 Years, Resting Place for Spirit – Approaching Ba Jin’s The Family, etc. Between 2009 and 2010, he taught at the Department of Foreign Languages, US Military Academy at West Point, and carried out cultural exchange in Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao and other countries and regions.