NATIONAL CLASSICISM: LIN SHU AS TEXTBOOK WRITER AND ANTHOLOGIST, 1908-1924.

The article examines the three periods in Lin shu's national classicism. It traces the changes in the roles of editors and compilers from the late Ming to the late Qing and it also examines the Zhongxue guowen duben series. Its stage of the article also discusses anthologies, textbooks, and other educational materials that focuses to polemics in the late Qing and early Republic about how national language and literature should shape both a state-defined national audience of students and self-selecting groups of readers. After the time when Lin Shu withdrew from the literary scene, other famous figures and institutions continued working in textbooks and educational materials, especially correspondence courses.