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"Literary Consumption and Chinese Modern and Contemporary Novels" is divided into the first and second volumes. The first volume is a theoretical study of literary consumption. It is the theoretical achievement of the author in recent years by drawing on the research model of Western literary sociology and studying literary sociology, literary consumption research and popular culture research. The opening chapter "On the Third Value of Literature - Consumption Value" is the theoretical cornerstone of the whole book. This article focuses on explaining the third value of literature - consumption value based on "literary facts". The close relationship between literary consumption and literature, including the role and influence of literary publishing, book market, mass readers, media culture, film and television production, etc. On literary production, is discussed in each chapter of the previous volume. The second volume uses the theoretical results of the first volume to make a special study of the novels of various literary periods in China in the 20th century from the perspective of literary consumption.

"Walking Alone" contains the author's writings of the past ten years or so on historical reflections of the times, analysis of social phenomena, observation of culture and education, insights into the world and life, reviews of past events, miscellaneous notes on journeys, character sketches, and reading essays. In these words, the author strives to express a voice that is outside literary research and different from popular culture - the voice of an intellectual walking alone in the spiritual and ideological world.