On the Chinese Post-Modern Novels

Questioning the criticism discourse of the Chinese post-modern novels, this paper points out that the prerequisite for a sound discourse must be cleared before the post-modern discourse is applied.This paper focuses on the creation of Chinese contemporary novels and analyses problems as follows: the difficulty in naming the works,the status of the writer,the change to their idea of creation,the transformation of reader reception and the circulation of the works. This author believes that in the post-modern interpretation of Chinese contemporary novels,the works created in the 1990s should be differentiated from those created by the pioneers in the 1980s and the writers who became famous in the 1980s and who are still active in the literary world so as to show the importance of the contextualization in literary criticism.