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He Ping is not an academic critic in the usual sense. In the past five or six years, he has hosted the "Flower City Concern" column, convened the "Shanghai-Nanjing Twin Cities Literary Workshop", and edited the "On-site Literature Series" and the "Literary Community Book Series" to realistically influence the current literary production and ecology in order to fulfill his critical ideal of rebuilding the dialogue and publicity of literary criticism. "The Return of Criticism" is based on the long-term literary history and the integrity of the macro-literary view. It uses field surveys to explore and redraw the panoramic map of contemporary Chinese literature. It is a native archive of the literary scene. Not only that, in He Ping's view, it is an important tradition of modern Chinese literary criticism that critics take root in the literary scene and participate in literary production and the construction of literary history. Adhering to this tradition, "The Return of Criticism" presents a unique personal critical style in its concepts, postures, practices, paradigms and styles. The book is divided into three volumes: "Ideology", "Writers" and "Scene". "Trend of Thought" is He Ping's exploration and reflection on Chinese literature as a whole in the era of reform and opening up, especially the 20 years of the new century; "Writer" is a series of case studies of writers, in which he reflects on the aesthetic creation of contemporary Chinese writers using five writers, including Alai, Chi Zijian, Li Er, Ai Wei, and Qiu Huadong; "Site" is a private literary archive that contains the general comments of thirty issues of the "Flower City Concern" column hosted by the author from 2017 to 2021. He Ping uses a critic's aesthetic sensitivity and independent judgment to sort out and identify the rich literary scene, extract new literary trends and aesthetic experiences, and pay attention to the era of reform and opening up, especially important literary issues in the new century: local and world literature, media revolution, the impact of AI technology on literature, literary generations and youth writing, reform The historical logic of Chinese literature in the era of reform and opening up, multi-ethnic literature and literary communities, emerging literary styles, social changes, etc., Starting from the literary issues of the times, realize the return of literary criticism to contemporary Chinese literature and the reality of China it is related to, demonstrating the effectiveness and reality of literary criticism with attitude, temperature, and emotion.

This book is one of the "Japanese Literature Series". This book is a book review and essay written by He Ping, a professor at the School of Liberal Arts of Nanjing Normal University and a famous book critic, on a number of representative works of contemporary Chinese literature. These works are not the so-called reportage of traditional "news" plus "literature", but are actual records that integrate personal experience, have a strong awareness of issues and independent thinking. The author named this new writing phenomenon "actor writing". The book is divided into 24 chapters. The content focuses on all aspects of contemporary literature, such as the differences between generations of writers, Internet literature, avant-garde novels, realist literature, the relationship between literature and the times, etc. It mainly uses novels as samples to observe modern and contemporary Chinese literature, and also covers various contemporary literary phenomena.