在19世纪末西学东渐的潮流中,文学史作为新的研究方法与学科体系从西洋导入日本。日本明治时期(1868-1912)的学者,早于中国学者开始撰写中国文学史,并对有关“文学”、“文学史”的概念进行了阐释,对有关“文学史”的著述体例进行了探索,从这个意义上讲,日本明治时期刊行的中国文学史为中国本土文学史提供了先导性的研究范式。在明治时期的中国文学史家中,久保天 In the tide of the gradual progress of western learning at the end of the 19th century, the history of literature was introduced into Japan from the west as a new research method and disciplinary system. Scholars of Japan’s Meiji Period (1868-1912) began to write Chinese literary history earlier than Chinese scholars and explained the concepts related to “literary” and “literary history” In this sense, the history of Chinese literature published in the Meiji period in Japan provided a pioneering paradigm for the study of the history of Chinese native literature. In the Meiji era of Chinese literary historians, Kubo