Variety Explore Of Chinese Modern Literature Compilation During The "Seventeen Years" Period

In academic field, research of Chinese modern literature compilation during the "seventeen years" period (1949-1966) has always been focusing on those published and influential literary history works, such as Wang Yao’s Draft of Chinese Modern Literature History, Cai Yi’s Speech of Chinese Modern Literature History, DingYi’s History of Chinese Modern Literature, Zhang Bilai’s New Literature History, and Liu Shousong’s The First Draft of Chinese Modern Literature History. Therefore, research about them is relatively mature.However, as to Chinese modern literature compilation, there are lots of Chinese modern literature handouts and materials circulated within the colleges and universities which are worthy of our attention and research. They may not be able to be finally published, and may be only a certain draft, outline, draft for opinions, and other forms of original texts, for example, Ren Fangqiu’s Script of Chinese Modern Literature History, Chinese Modern Literature Handout edited by Qian Gurong and other scholars, Chinese Modern Literature History outline (draft) and Chinese Modern Literature History draft for discussion volume one, as well as Book Remarking chief-edited by Tang Tao. All these above are representatives which were not paid attention to for a long time and did not cause academic concern. All of them are the first-hand information and important reference materials for research of Chinese modern literature compilation during the "seventeen years" period, and to a certain extent, they develop the study of Chinese modern literature compilation during the "seventeen years" period.According to the analysis of the research results of Ren Fangqiu, Qian Gurong and Tang Tao, it can be seen that their writings and contributions in Chinese modern literature compilation are with great value, and are urgently awaited to be excavated deeply. According to the different academic style, this dissertation attempts to do exploration and research in diversity of modern literature compilation from the angle of version and text changes based on the analysis of Chinese modern literature history books wrote, edited or chief-edited by Tang Tao, Ren Fangqiu and Qian Gurong. And then, new observations and thoughts which can enrich the former study will be supplied for literature history research and the complexity of writing at that period.Ren Fangqiu wrote three different edition of modern literature history in 1944, 1953 and 1957, and he pays great attention to especially to the research and analysis of relations of modern literature and contemporary literature. His Chinese Modern literature History volume one has already been paid attention in academic field, and I emphatically carry on further analysis carefully on the recent discovery Script of Chinese Modern Literature.In academic field, there is no discussion on the literary history compilation achievements of Qian Gurong. The focus of attention in the past was put on his several masterpieces, such as On Literature is "the Person Study" and On Characters in Thunderstorm; the fact that he had have taken part in the compilation of modern literature was barely noticed. From the chapter about Cao Yu in Qian Gurong’s Handout of Chinese Modern Literature, it can be seen that close reading and appreciation of writers and works are the focus in the handout though he has no intention to build new literature framework. For example, the analysis of Thunderstorm and Sunrise in the chapter about Cao Yu provides examples to analyze literature history from the aspect of close reading.The publication date of three volumes Chinese Modern Literature History chief-edited by Tang Tao is in the late 70’s early 80’s of last century, and in the studies before, it was analyzed as the representative of literature work in Chinese modern literature recovery period. However, the experience of this literature history compilation is very tough, and I, to the greatest extent, restore the twists and turns in the process of compilation of Chinese Modern Literature History chief-edited by Tang Tao according to the new-found manuscript of Chinese Modern Literature History and discussion draft of volume one of the book. Then, I analyze the hard course of Chinese literature history compilation and the struggle of Chinese literature as a subject. And the changes of published version of Tang Tao’s Book Remark published during the process of chief-editing Chinese Modern Literature History are analyzed based on the whole analysis of Tang Tao’s writing process of the book remark. Meanwhile, it is compared with internal publishing discussion manuscript of Chinese Modern Literature History volume one, and then the literature history meaning of Tang Tao’s book remark is discussed.It can be seen that in the modern literature compilation, Tang Tao focuses on searching first-hand information and refining the language of literature history, Ren Fangqiu pays attention to research and analysis of the relationship of modern literature and contemporary literature, and Qian Gurong focuses on analyzing literature history according to close reading of text, carefully reading writers and works, and pursuing literary characters.Although the research of Chinese modern literature history compilation made by Tang Tao, Ren Fangqiu, and Qian Gurong these three scholars during the "seventeen years" period may not have a significant impact in the environment of literature history research tending to political study, their literature history compilation at that period is with significance for later modern literature history compilation and research.