...Leonard Kwok Kou Chan Abstract Is “literary criticism” a foreign concept? What is the impact of the reception of literary criticism on the modern studies of Chinese literature? Zhu Ziqing's 朱自清 (1898–1948) conception of the function of literary criticism is illustrative of these questions. Zhu...

... [for literary study] in terms of Western concepts. For good or ill, this has become an inevitable tendency. 現在學術界的趨勢，往往以西方觀念(如「文學批評」)為範圍去選擇中國的問題；姑無論將來是好是壞，這已經是不可避免的事實。 —Zhu Ziqing, “Ping Guo Shaoyu Zhongguo wenxue pipingshi shangjuan” 評郭紹虞《中國文學批評史》上卷 (A Review of The History of Chinese Literary Criticism...

... history, and the way in which that ambivalence played itself out in the compositions of one particular ci writer, see Ashmore, “The Banquet's Aftermath.” 10. Zhu Ziqing 朱自清 (1898–1948), in discussing the differences in the latter-day influences of Sima Qian 司馬遷 and Ban Gu 班固 said: The Shiji...

... de yinjie 自然的音節) of Chinese poetry is defined by philologists in either biological or linguistic terms, and pondering the poetry's consequences with regard to the rise of modern Chinese vernacular poetry. Leonard Chan calls attention to the contribution of Zhu Ziqing 朱自清 (1898–1948) to modern...