On Renaming the "Chinese History of Literary Criticism" to the "Chinese History of Poetic Prose Criticism"

prose criticism differs from western criticism with its distinctive national characteristics.The two are similar in appearance but different in essence.No one can deny the fact that there is enormous discrepancy between prose criticism and its western counterpart.Thus the crucial reason for those negative effects from borrowing western concepts and terms of criticism is that some scholars care more about similarities and commensurability between and western literary theories than about discrepancies and incommensurability between the two theories.In fact,however,it is depending upon respective discrepancies,incommensurability and difference,namely,its own characteristics,that a national literature gains its identity and value of existence in global life.Therefore,we should cease to mechanically apply western academic and disciplinary titles by forcing the name of criticism on ancient literary theory.The prose criticism,the original name of literary criticism,should be restored,and the Chinese history of literary criticism should also be renamed as the Chinese history of poetic prose criticism.