Contemporary Construction of the Chinese Form of Marxist Literary Criticism

Professor Yamin Hu is one of the leading Chinese scholars in the areas of Marxist literary theory studies, literary criticism, comparative literature and narrative studies. She is the rare female pioneer who strived to forge her way in Chinese academia and achieved great accomplishment and a strong reputation as early as the 1990s’. She has hosted a number of national level funding programs, including two Major Projects of the National Social Science Fund. Her publications include more than 12 monographs, textbooks and translations, and more than 100 academic articles. Her textbook Comparative Literature, which received the National Excellent Teaching Material Award, has been translated into Vietnamese. Professor Yamin Hu edited the book Keywords in Western Literary Criticism and Contemporary China (Vol.1&2), published by Routledge in 2020.

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: People: The Starting Point & the Destination of Literary Criticism.- Chapter 3: Nation: A New Dimension of Literary Criticism in the Context of Globalization.- Chapter 4: The Political Dimension of Literary Criticism.- Chapter 5: The Praxis Dimension of Literary Criticism.- Chapter 6: Marxist Literary Criticism in the Hi-Tech Era.- Chapter 7: Literature and Capital in a Market Economy.- Chapter 8: A Study of Value Judgment.- Chapter 9: Conclusion.

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