Relevant for the postgraduate entrance examination for the major of ancient Chinese literature in the Chinese Department of Peking University

Peking University Ancient Chinese Literature Postgraduate Entrance Examination Review

1. Ancient Chinese Literature:

1. Question type: a Original text punctuation and interpretation 15%

b Noun explanation (about 5) 25%

c Essay question: one question in each of the four directions, choose two questions, the question in this direction must choose 2*30%

2. Reference books: You should read two or more sets of textbooks for comparison. For example:

a "History of Chinese Literature" by You Guoen and five others

b "History of Chinese Literature" by Yuan Xingpei

c "History of Chinese Literature" by Ma Jigao and Huang Jun Literary History"

d Chu Binjie, Yuan Xingpei, and Li Xiusheng "Outline of Chinese Literary History"

3. Method:

a Focus on "history" and analyze each The development of various literary styles, literary and artistic trends, literary schools, the maturation process of certain artistic expression techniques, and the works of writers related to them must be sorted out clearly one by one.

b Try to memorize as many original texts as possible to provide evidence for answering the questions.

c When answering questions, you don’t have to agree with the Peking University teacher’s views, you just need to justify your explanation and hold it with evidence.

2. Basics of Ancient Literature Major:

This test paper is all question and answer questions, sometimes with noun explanations, and the content includes three courses:

1. General History of China : Jian Bozan's "Outline of Chinese History"

2. Ancient Literary Theory: Guo Shaoyu's "History of Chinese Literary Criticism"

Zhang Shaokang and Liu Sanfu's "History of Ancient Chinese Literary Criticism"

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Wang Yunxi and Gu Yisheng "General History of Chinese Literary Criticism"

Chen Zhaolin "Outline of Ancient Chinese Literary Theory"

3. Modern and contemporary literature: Qian Liqun and others "China "Thirty Years of Modern Literature"

"Overview of Contemporary Chinese Literature" by Hong Zicheng, Zhang Zhong and others

The above books are for reference only and can be replaced by textbooks from various schools.

3. Comprehensive examination

1. Question type: choice, fill in the blanks.

2. The questions in this paper are extremely trivial, and the content involves various courses in the Chinese Department. It is actually an examination of knowledge points. Therefore, the focus of review is only to memorize knowledge points. The courses of the Chinese Department of Peking University are divided into three major parts:

a Chinese: Linguistics, Modern Chinese, Ancient Chinese

b Literature: Ancient Literature, Modern Literature, Contemporary Literature, Foreign Literature , literature and art, ancient literary theory, history of Western aesthetics

c Documents: catalog, edition, collation, retrieval

Recommended bibliography: Pan Shuguang's "Classical Literature Documents and Retrieval"

For ancient literature candidates, the main focus of review should be on "Literature", and the questions in this section account for the main part of the test paper.