For this reason the many arguments expounded in Novel China are mainly presented through analogy and dialogue between large numbers of works, and concentrate on probing the emergence, development and current state of several genre traditions within recent and modern Chinese fiction, including political, local-flavor, overseas student life, science fiction, erotic, feminine consciousness, and others, along with these genres 'aesthetic, social, and cultural implications.
因此，＜小說中國＞中的諸多論述，主要的都是透過眾多作品的類比對話，而集中在中國近、現代的政治、鄉土、留學生、科幻、狎邪、女性意識等小說次文類傳統之生成、發展、現勢與其美學、社會、文化意涵的探討上。