A Perfect Combination of Four Perspectives——Reviewing The History of 20th Century New Poem Development in Chongqing

The newly published The History of 20th Century New Poem Development in Chongqing is an academic work of special significance in that it fills out the blank in the history of regional new poems. More importantly, it has a different starting point from ordinary history of epics: It traces the origin of Chongqing poems from folk songs and seeks its development poem construction. The thinking and expatiation from these two perspectives are of great inspiration to the development of new poems as a whole.