On Mao Shuiqing's Literary History of the Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties

Literary History of the Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties by Mao Shuiqing concentrates on poetic study. Focusing on the progress of literary history, it widens the scope of research by discussing the poets and their poems that have been rarely studied before, and advances some fresh views that are different from those of the predecessors'. The highlight the book is the literary criticism. The book traces the sources and makes comparative study so as to reveal the differences and similarities among works of the writers. With elegant prose style, Mao Shuiqing is accurate in diction, brief and smooth in style. The book has reached a new dimension concerning the research of Chinese literary history.