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The articles included in this book involve more than 20 contemporary Chinese writers and their works who have been influential in recent years, and are divided into four series. Some of these articles are short and others are slightly longer, but they intersect with each other and raise similar questions one after another. Rather than calling it literary criticism, it is better to regard it as a preparation for criticism, an attempt to clean up the literary scene in the most clumsy way.

"Professional and Amateur Novelists" is one of the literary criticism volumes in the "Identity Community·Post-70s Writers Series". It contains more than 40 literary criticism essays written by Zhang Dinghao, a critic born in the 1970s, in recent years, covering the author's favorite writers and works from Zhang Ailing, Qian Zhongshu to Zhang Yiwei, from "Young Marshal" to "Flowers". This is a book of writing as well as a book of reading.

This book is an expanded edition of the critic Zhang Dinghao's masterpiece "Love and Sorrow". After six years, it finally added more than 40,000 words. Love is not just passion, it also means loss of control, and it is a complex mental life; compassion represents morality and responsibility. Both are often overwhelming, but are the choices of most brilliant novelists who aim to write about human life. From Graham Greene and Alice Munro to Auden and Brodsky, from "Stoner" to "The Bohemian", the book covers basically all the authors and works that the author loves. In a sense, this is a book of reading and writing, as well as a book of self-examination. One is simultaneously aware of the power and impotence of words, the abundance and poverty of love. But he still writes to please those unattainable shadows.

This book is the latest revised version of Zhang Dinghao's first collection of literary essays "Preparation for Criticism" published in 2015. The author replaced one-third of the original book to reorganize his literary theory writing of more than ten years to express his basic understanding of contemporary literature and literary criticism. Although most of the articles focus on a specific work published that year, what they ultimately talk about are the universal issues felt from these specific works. He believes that in the contemporary literary criticism scene where everyone is struggling alone and seems to be at a loss what to do, accuracy is the most relevant moral law. It first means talking about the work "as it is", and to achieve this goal, it is necessary to constantly doubt, verify, express, reflect on existing experience, and finally obtain a holistic judgment. Only in this way can criticism no longer be an intellectual game for critics, but can face ordinary readers; can it no longer be reduced to a appendage of literary creation and the appendix of knowledge, but truly become an exciting undertaking; can it start from here and now and try to understand the human emotions and creations that have existed in the past.

A private version of "Midnight in Paris" dedicated to all those who love reading and writing. "The next book you want to read, the next person you want to meet, will change your life." "Love and Sorrow" contains more than 20 literary essays written by Zhang Dinghao, a talented scholar in Shanghai, in the past ten years. The ones covered, from Graham Greene and Alice Munro to Auden and Brodsky, from "Stoner" to "The Swede of the River Without Sorrow", are basically the authors and works that the author loves. In a sense, this is a book of reading as well as writing. The author explores the secret of writing in reading, and then completes the mission of reading in writing. He believes that good writing is all about being loved, while good reading points to love.

Lightness also means clarity, which means telling the truth about art and life without relying on masks. The most promising literary critic in Shanghai, writing a new wave of criticism. Xiao Hong, Tai Jingnong, Zhang Dachun, Susan Sontag, Umberto Eco, Cortázar, John Irving... The author's writing freely travels between ancient and modern times at home and abroad, and he is good at speaking eloquently, and there is also a lot of eloquence. Don't give high-level sermons, just use temperamental words to appreciate the wonderful power of literature to lead daily life to a light and soaring. These critical articles themselves can also be seen as beautiful essays, full of insights and surprises. Each article allows you to understand a sentence, a book, and a writer. "Effortless Lightness" contains many articles written by the author in recent years. Most of the writers and texts discussed in the collection have a certain weight, and they touch on important new literary books in recent years and authors who have attracted the attention of the literary world. The articles are divided into five series: Series 1, "One Thousandth of Literature", talks about literary works and the writing of literary history itself. The objects of comment include currently well-known authors such as Lin Da, Luo Yijun, Zhang Dachun, and Bi Feiyu, as well as more classic writers in the history of literature, such as Xiao Hong and Tai Jinnong; Series 2, "Life as the Plural", talks about the memoirs, essays, and essays of literati and intellectuals, focusing on Towards a broader era, life and nature; Part 3, "Love on Paper", discusses love and tenderness in literature; Part 4, "Writing Following Your Own Heart", reviews foreign writers such as Susan Sontag, Eco, Kotaro Isaka and their works; Part 5, "New and Old" is all about poetry, with topics involving the craft of poetry writing, the gains and losses of poetry translation, and comments on specific poets and works.