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"Twenty Years of Chinese Internet Literature" is led by Ouyang Youquan, a senior scholar in the field of Chinese Internet literature research. It presents a panoramic view of the overall development pattern of Chinese Internet literature in the past twenty years since its birth. The book combines history and theory, macro and micro, on the one hand, it outlines the development of Chinese Internet literature in detail, starting from the rise of China's Internet literature era, the development of literary website platforms, the lineup of Internet writers, Internet literature works, Internet literature industry management, Internet literature reading, Internet literature theoretical criticism, women and ethnic minority Internet literature, and the contribution, limitations and development trends of Internet literature. It comprehensively outlines the entire historical process of the emergence, development, and evolution of Chinese Internet literature. On the other hand, the author deeply analyzes the inherent laws of the development of Internet literature from the perspectives of politics, economy, science and technology, culture, psychology and other human sociology, and constructs a basic theoretical system for Internet literature research. Based on the academic stance of "theory responds to reality", through specific Internet literature phenomena, he studies the causes and social impacts behind it. At the same time, he analyzes the transformation of literature in the Internet era and the turn of literary theory, and presents the value of Internet literature in terms of popular art aesthetics, social and cultural significance, and as a new form of the cultural industry. It is an innovative achievement in the current field of Internet literature research.

This is a special collection of Internet literary criticism, consisting of 75 papers. The content includes four parts: Principles of Internet Literature Criticism (18 articles), Internet Literature Evaluation System (21 articles), Internet Literature Criticism Standards (15 articles), and Internet Literature Criticism Practice (21 articles). These articles are all publicly published results in important domestic academic journals and theoretical pages of mainstream newspapers. They basically reflect the theoretical achievements and critical practice of my country's Internet literature criticism in recent years. Most of the authors of the article are front-line scholars in the field of theoretical criticism of Internet literature in my country, including senior scholars from traditional academic schools as well as academic newcomers who have emerged in recent years. Their diligent efforts and contributions to Internet literature criticism have undoubtedly played a decisive role in this emerging academic field. The editor extracts the best from the theoretical criticism achievements accumulated over the past 20 years of the development of Internet literature, and selects the best for collection and publication, so that more people can share these achievements. It is undoubtedly of positive significance to the theoretical construction and critical practice of Internet literature, and to the promotion of the healthy development of my country's Internet literature.