先父方孝岳教授的《中国文学批评》,七十二年之间三次问世:第一次,一九三四年五月上海世界书局初版;第二次,一九八六年十二月北京三联书店重印;现在二○○六年第三次,三联本又要出新版。第一次与第二次相距五十二年,第二次与第三次相距二十年,这七十二年的历史,证明此书是在学 Professor Fang Xiaoyue first published his “Chinese Literary Criticism,” which appeared three times in seventy-two years: first, first published in Shanghai World Bookstore in May 1934; second, in December 1986, Beijing Joint Publishing reprint; now the third time in 2006, triple this again to a new version. The first and second are fifty-two years apart, the second and third are two decades away, and the seventy-two year history proves that the book is in school