Chinese Journal of Literary Criticism

No.1, 2019 

20 Years of Chinese Online Literary Criticism

(Abstract)

Ouyang Youquan and Zhang Weiqi

Three critical forces, namely academic criticism, media criticism and online criticism of literary netizens have developed in the recent twenty years. The first one helps to promote the quality and mainstreaming of online literature. The second one aims to highlight hot topics and guide public opinion. The third one has a greater impact on the industry because of the vividness and sensitivity of real-time interaction among netizens. This study mainly focuses on the evaluation of the current situation of online literature, the study of basic theoretical issues, and the evaluation system and criticism criterionss, development strategies and cleanup of network literature resources and database construction. Its limitations include weak construction of professional teams and the difficulty of criticism caused by the technical gap and browsing burden, the lack of criticism frameworks and the stereotypes of critical ideas.