A Comparison of Paradigms for Writing Literary History--Thirty Years of Modern Chinese Literature and Harvard’s New History of Modern Chinese Literature as Examples

Abstract

Thirty Years of Modern Chinese Literature and Harvard’s New History of Modern Chinese Literature have significant writing differences, but both of them are representative books on the history of modern and contemporary Chinese literature. In this paper, we will try to start from the perspective of academic history and academic concepts, take into account their different social identities, try to compare the reasons and backgrounds of the differences between the two, and initially discuss the gains and losses and development of each of the two paradigms.