Novel China--Chinese Prose Fiction from the Late Ching Dynasty to the Present Day is literary critic David Wang's fourth collection of critical articles in Chinese. Although at first glance its title appears simply to refer to the literary history of a period, closer reading reveals that it touches on the cultural complex of the sacred mission to "save the nation and the people" traditionally allotted to the novel in China.
＜小說中國﹘﹘晚清到當代的中文小說＞是文學評論家王德威第四本中文評論集，這看似斷代文學史的書名，細細讀來，其實他觸及的是中國傳統賦予小說「救國救民」神聖使命的複雜情結。