For apart from the historical space-time and special political and social circumstances constituted by the discourse, the "special context" which he has chosen is on the one hand inherent in the very phylogeny of the sub-genres within modern fiction, and on the other hand is a basic turning point in the development of Chinese and Western culture, highlighted by all the theories of contemporary culture and literature.
因為他所選擇的「特殊語境」，除了言說所以形成的歷史時空、特殊的政治社會情勢，一方面集中在現代小說中的次文類自身的系譜；一方面則是由當代文化、文學的諸類理論所凸顯出的，中西文化發展的基本轉折。