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The articles included in this book are a record of Mr. Wu Zilin's journey on the road of literary criticism, so it is called "Critical Archives". These articles condense the author's thoughts and summaries on literary works and literary phenomena over the years. Through theoretical research on mutual support between China and the West, ancient and modern communication, and solid text reading and analysis, the author provides a powerful academic review of the topics raised by the changing times and many problems that arise in the practice of literary creation. They present the author's dream of literary criticism and express the author's responsibility and feelings as a literary critic towards himself and all life around him.

By analyzing Jin Shengtan's comments on popular novels, this book not only analyzes the unique social and cultural background and characteristics of Jin Shengtan's comments, but also analyzes the importance of Jin Shengtan's comments on the canonization of popular novels in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The content of this book is mainly divided into the following parts: The first chapter studies the specific cultural context in which Jin Shengtan lives from the perspective of regional culture, that is, the various cultural resources, social needs, popular values, dominant ways of thinking, etc. He faced, trying to accurately grasp the emergence, existence and significance of his novel commentary discourse system. The second chapter mainly studies the formal criticism of Jin Shengtan's novel criticism, that is, Jin Shengtan's construction of the narrative theory of the novel. The third chapter focuses on the political criticism of Jin Shengtan's novels. The fourth chapter focuses on the cultural significance of Jin Shengtan's novel criticism, connecting external research and internal research to integrate the above discussion.