本书主要是考察和研究晚清至抗战前的中国文学史书写历史，重点探讨文学史书写历史中文学史观、文学史编撰体例的特色及其发展演变。This book mainly investigates and studies the writing history in the history of Chinese literature from the late Qing Dynasty to before the anti-Japanese War. It emphasizes on discussing features, development and evolution about views of literary history and compiling styles of literary history among the writing history in the literary history.