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This book uses methods such as reception aesthetics and hermeneutics to study the reception history of Roland Barthes' literary theory in China. The reception of Roland Barthes's literary theory in China has gone through four stages, which constitute his four faces: the "formalists" in the early 1980s, the structuralists in the late 1980s, the poststructuralists in the 1990s, and the popular culture critics in the 21st century. The history of the reception of Barthes's literary theory in China shows a profile of the development history of contemporary Chinese literary theory. This book strives to provide reference suggestions for scholars in related fields to learn from Western literary theory by studying the reception history of Barth's literary theory in China.