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"New Space of Contemporary Literature" is a collection of literary theory and critical articles written by literary critic He Shaojun in recent years. He Shaojun emphasized the theorization and systematization of criticism. He believed that an important task of literary criticism is to discover new elements in literary practice with the keenest vision and to theoretically summarize these new elements, thereby providing theoretical support for expanding new spaces in literature. In this collection of essays, He Shaojun explains some of his literary discoveries through the textual interpretation of some literary works, such as the vision of world literature in new century literature, new political novels, new market novels, critical ethical issues in literary criticism, the revolutionary nature and postmodernity of online literature, etc. This is a collection of critical essays with a simple style and full of innovative ideas.

A good novella should include at least two things: it should be both a good-looking novel and a novel with literary implications. It is not difficult to find good novels, and it is not difficult to find novels with literary implications, but it is a bit difficult to find novels that combine both. This is where the difficulty of novella writing lies, because when the author pursues good looks, it is inevitable that the literary connotations will be compromised, and when pursuing literary connotations, the author will inevitably compromise the good looks.

When reading short stories in 2011, I often find some unfamiliar names, which makes me happy. Accompanying this joy is the fact that some good novels are written by young writers, which is really a blessing. Why I value this so much is because it is not only related to the successors of short story writing, but also related to whether purely literary novels can survive. We generally divide novels into novels, novellas and short stories. In my opinion, short stories are literary novel styles. Modern short stories were written from the May 4th Movement until the 21st century. After a century of repeated training, it should be said that they have become a quite mature style. Around the 21st century, a series of social and cultural changes have occurred, such as the market economy, the Internet, new media based on high technology, etc. The impact of these changes on literature cannot be underestimated. But only the short story seems indifferent to these external onslaughts. This shows that the short story genre has matured into a quite solid fortress. It represents the aesthetic form of traditional novels and will not cater to external changes. In order to adapt to the new literary production environment, many literary styles have to change their appearance, and the changes are nothing more than two ways. One is to force many new factors that adapt to the current consumer era into literature, and the other is to dilute the literariness in the traditional sense as much as possible. However, in order to adapt to the changes in the consumer era, what literature brings is not the rebirth of literature, but the generalization, dwarfing and vulgarization of literature. Of course, these would be an optimistic conclusion based on Darwinism, because the fittest will survive and old literature will die, and a new literary form will be born, such as Internet literature and mobile phone literature. But I have always believed that culture and literature reject evolution. Therefore, it will be a blessing for human civilization to be able to preserve a traditional literary form intact.