The literarycriticism of Shen congwen has manifold criticism literary form, for example, thesis, andsketches, and epistle, and preface and postscript, and afterword, and critical biography.
I can tell by the look on your face that I'm going to have to write an afterword to the paperback.
That was the early spring in 1998, in a room very close to the South China Sea, I wrote the essay "In the ethereal divinities", that is the afterword in my poetry collection "The homeland of heart".