The novel has always been an indispensable element in constructing China's sociopolitical system, its image and its history; writing literary history is basically using one's imagination to thread together literary works into coherent strands isn't writ ng history just the same?
小說一直是建造中國體制、形象、歷史不可或缺的一環；寫文學史基本上就是利用想像，把文學作品串成起承轉合的脈絡。寫歷史又何嘗不是如此？