A Research Summary of Literary Studies in the Late Tang Dynasty through the Year 2004

It is calculated that about 75 research papers on the late Tang Dynasty been published through the year 2004 (apart from studies about LI Shang-yin and DU Mu).Among these papers,new points or new ideas have been raised by var- ious scholars and particularly in the aspect of textual criticism which fully expressed scholars'rigorous and practical aca- demic attitudes towards their research.The paper is all to discuss mainly in three aspects about the important issues of poets with their textual criticism and studies about writers and their artistic characteristics and the different literary schools.