Chinese Journal of Literary Criticism

No.1, 2023 

 

On the New Style Changes in Chinese Literary Criticism in the 21st Century

(Abstract)

 

He Yanhong

 

In the 21st century, the new style of Chinese literary criticism, on the one hand, is reflected in the problematic academic mechanism, academic criticism and the resulting severe dissatisfaction. On the other hand, people with sufficient self-awareness of criticism style has shaken off the barriers of academic mechanism and the stylistic constraints of academic criticism. With an embrace of the rich traditions left by ancient and modern Chinese and foreign criticism, they adhere to and resume the dialogic criticism that came into fruition and influenced the 1980s and the 1990s while practicing the essay-style criticism in a fully open and diverse manner. These new practices of criticism have not only achieved many remarkable outcomes, but also to a certain extent formed a stylistic pattern where “academic criticism” and “non-academic criticism” coexist.