A History of Cyber Literary Criticism in China

This is the first scholarly attempt to write a history of cyber literary criticism in China. The author uses the Internet as the departure point, literature as the horizontal axis, and criticism as the vertical axis, to draw a detailed trajectory of the development of cyber literary criticism in China.

Ouyang Youquan is Professor at the School of Literature and Journalism, Central South University, China. His research interests include literary theories and cyber literature. He has published many books, including The Ontology of Cyber Literature, Studies of Literature and Art in the Context of Digitalization, and The Transformation of Art in Digital Media.

Part I 1. New Media and the Evolution of Cyber Literary Criticism 2. Major Types of Cyber Literary Critics and Their Criticism 3. Academic Achievements in Cyber Literary Studies 4. The Forms, Contents, and Rhetorical Expressions of Netizens' Critical Commentaries 5. Important Events in the History of Cyber Literary Criticism Part II 6. The Conceptual Transformation in Literary Criticism of the Internet Era 7. The Establishment of Evaluation Criteria for Cyber Literature 8. Changes in the Function of Cyber Literary Criticism 9. Changes in the Constitution of Cyber Literary Critics 10. The Impact of Cyber Literary Criticism