1. Introduction: “Critics Circles” in Contemporary Chinese Literature
Part1: Redraw the Map of Times (1949–1976)
2. The Intention of Fiction Criticism
3. The Rise and Fall of the Criticism on Zhao Shuli
4. Rural Fiction
5. Revolutionary War Fiction
6. Other Subgenres of Fiction
7. The Dalian Conference and the “Theory of Middle Character”
8. Fiction Criticism during the Cultural Revolution
Part2: Swirl of History (1977–1991)
9. Fiction Criticism during the New Period
10. The Critics during the Exploratory Craze of Fiction
Part3: Move Forward with Adjustment (1992–2018)
11. Fiction Criticism during the Social Transformations in the 1990s
12. Literary Criticism in the 1990s
13. Criticism on Full-Length Novels
14. Fiction Criticism since the Start of the 21st Century