ZiNiu recommended the book | repainted a panoramic map of contemporary Chinese literature in the form of fieldwork, and He Ping's "The Return of Criticism" was published

He Ping was not a college critic in the usual sense. In the past five or six years, he has presided over the "Flower City Concern" column, convened the "Shanghai-Nanjing Twin Cities Literary Workshop", and edited the "Live Literature Series" and the "Literary Community Book Series", which realistically affected the current literary production and ecology, in order to fulfill its ideal of reconstructing the dialogue and publicity of literary criticism.

Recently, He Ping's new work "The Return of Criticism" was launched by Yilin Publishing House, which is based on the integrity of long-term literary history and great literary concept, exploring and redrawing a panoramic map of contemporary Chinese literature in the form of fieldwork, which is a native archive of the literary scene. Not only that, in He Ping's view, critics take root in the literary scene and participate in literary production and the construction of literary history, which is an important tradition of modern Chinese literary criticism. Adhering to this tradition, "The Return of Criticism" presents a unique personal critical style in its philosophy, posture, practice, paradigm and style.

The book is divided into three series: "Thought Trends", "Writers" and "Scene". "Thought Trend" is He Ping's exploration and reflection on the overall Chinese literature in the era of reform and opening up, especially in the twenty years of the new century; "Writer" is a series of writer case studies, he takes five writers such as Ah Lai, Chi Zijian, Li Er, Ai Wei, qiu Huadong and other writers as a sample to reflect on the aesthetic creation of contemporary Chinese writers; "Scene" is a private literary archive, which includes the general evaluation of the thirty issues of the "Flower City Concern" column hosted by the author from 2017 to 2021.

With the aesthetic sensitivity and independent judgment of critics, He Ping sorted out and debated the rich literary scene, extracted new literary trends and aesthetic experience, and paid attention to important literary issues in the era of reform and opening up, especially in the new century: local and world literature, media revolution, the impact of AI technology on literature, literary intergenerational and youth writing, the historical logic of Chinese literature in the era of reform and opening up, multi-ethnic literature and literary community, emerging literary styles and social changes, etc., starting from the issues of the era of literature. Realizing the return of literary criticism to contemporary Chinese literature and the reality of China it is related to highlights the effectiveness and sense of reality of literary criticism with attitude, temperature and feelings.

He Ping, born in 1968, is a professor and doctoral supervisor of the College of Literature of Nanjing Normal University, and the chief expert of major projects of the National Social Science Foundation. He is the author of "Essays", "Selected Literary Criticism of He Ping", "The Life of the Unknown", etc. The editor-in-chief is "Literary Community Book Series" and "Live Literature Series". In 2017, he launched the "Shanghai-Nanjing Twin Cities Literature Workshop"; in the same year, he began to host the "Flower City Concern" column of "Flower City" magazine. Yangzi Evening News/Purple Cow News reporter Huang Yanwen

Source: Purple Cow News