| 1 | The purpose of this paper is to call for a return to historicism. | |
| 2 | When a professor assigns a paper to a class, the implicit understanding is that a student will produce a paper in harmony with the assignment. | |
| 3 | If there ever was a subject that needed to be viewed from every standpoint, it is this. | |
| 4 | And this presentation would contain some of the topics in some other articles and thesis that I have presented elsewhere, in a comparatively short and simplified version. | |
| 5 | The Shanghai writers took over the original narrative modes but changed the themes with special meaning in their literature works in the early period. |