《中国诗歌通史》由赵敏俐、吴思敬教授主编，国内30余位著名学者经过近8年的精心结撰而成，2012年6月人民文学出版社出版。全书11卷，分别为先秦卷、汉代卷、魏晋南北朝卷、唐五代卷、宋代卷、辽金元卷、明代卷、清代卷、现代卷、当代卷和少数民族卷，每卷70万字左右，总字数819万。它是迄今为止第一部贯通古今、涵盖各少数民族、兼及港澳台诗歌的大型的多卷本的中国诗歌通史。

该通史立足于当代文化视野，全面展示中国诗歌体式的丰富多样，揭示其内在发展过程，阐释中国诗歌的民族文化特征及其艺术本质，建立了以“通古今之变”和“观中西之别”为核心的中国诗歌史观。它的完成，为学习研究中国诗歌、弘扬优秀传统文化、向世界各国介绍辉煌灿烂的中华文化做出了重要贡献。

该通史2013年获政府出版奖提名奖。2014年获得由岳麓书院、凤凰网、凤凰卫视联合主办的“首届全球华人国学大典国学成果奖”，名列集部第一名。同年又获得北京市第十三届哲学社会科学优秀成果特等奖。2015年获得教育部第七届高等学校bob综合游戏官网 优秀成果（人文社会科学）一等奖。

The General History of Chinese Poetry is chiefly edited by Professor ZhaoMinli and Professor WuSijing with the endeavor of more than 30 scholars to discover and introduce the long history of Chinese poetry, including not only the poetry in mainland China but also that in particular areas like Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macao, and also poetry composed by ethnic group poets, from pre-Qin until present age. The book aims to demonstrate all forms of poems--- how they changed from time to time, and the cultural factors that carved the changes.

Published by People's Literature Publishing House in 2012, this masterpiece consists of 11 volumes, with approximately 700,000 words each volume, 8,190,000 words total, came out after almost 8 years’ diligent work. It has won several authoritative awards since its publication and becomes a must-read for poetry lovers, students and scholars specialized in Chinese poetry studying.