This book is the first installment of a four-part project, with roughly concurrent publication in Chinese and English: the first three of my Chinese monographs will appear with Shanghai guji chubanshe in the first half of 2025, soon after the publication of this first English monograph. It will take somewhat more time to bring out the remaining monographs in the English series. As works treating Chinese theories of literature, literary creation, interpretation, and aesthetic judgment, respectively, they're all subtitled A Historical and Critical Introduction to emphasize their broad chronological coverage and their original and analytical nature. Each book presents much material never presented in either Chinese- or English-language scholarship. On both the macro level (each book's conceptual framework) and the micro level (my topic selection and commentary), I believe my work is decidedly new. At the same time, I mean to make my critical inquiry accessible to as broad a...

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