ABSTRACT
This chapter explores modern Chinese literary historiography by first mapping out the trajectories of literary history, as an academic institution, a literary engagement with history, and a political capital from the turn of the twentieth century to the present. The chapter then identifies figures, discourses, events, and titles that mark the changes and continuities of thinking and writing literary history in the Chinese-speaking spheres and Sinological circles. The chapter ends with a few contested key words or concepts that have concerned scholars and readers, and projects possible topics for further pursuit from the perspective of world literature.
