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This book takes the novels published since the new century (ten years) as the research object, and is divided into two parts with ten chapters under the titles of "Flow of Concepts" and "Regeneration of Space". The previous part discusses the inheritance and innovation of novel creation concepts in the new century based on actual literary creation. However, this discussion is not a comprehensive review in an overall sense, but selects several areas with distinctive characteristics and significant changes for discussion. New century literature has not only grown vigorously in the past ten years, greatly changing the basic style and development trend of contemporary literature, but it is also obviously continuously expanding and suddenly amplifying, and is no longer a self-sufficient phenomenon in a single and pure literary field. It is inevitably and naturally connected with social trends, economic trends and cultural fashions, and is growing or mutating into a new type of hybrid literature. The second part mainly discusses the various literary types and diversified literary spaces of the novels in the ten years of the new century. However, this part does not conduct a panoramic scan of the areas of life reflected in literature since the new century. It does not conduct too much analysis on those areas that have not changed much in terms of expression of life in the literary historical tradition. It mainly selects several types with more transformational significance, including the deep fission of the rural world, the deep implantation of industrial life, the existential context of military reclamation life, the transcendence of identity in the creation of ethnic minority themes, and the resurgence of the Xinhai narrative. There is an appendix at the end of the book, which contains four conversations and interviews related to the book.