SPECIAL ISSUE： ONLINE LITERATURE IN CHINA： PRESENT SITUATION AND THEORETICAL REFLECTIONS Preservation and Innovation in Online Literature： A Brief Discussion

网络文学文本主要由传统文本和超文本组成。隐含“超文本性”的传统文本是网络文学的根基；而超文本作为网络世界最为流行的表意媒介，它以“比特”之名唤醒了沉睡于传统文本的开放性、自主性、互动性等潜在活力与灵性，代表着网络文学发展的方向。超文本以去中心和不确定的非线性“在线写读”方式解构传统、颠覆本质，在与后现代主义的相互唱和中，改变了文学的生存环境和存在方式。更重要的是，日益走向超文本的网络文学文本正在悄然改写我们关于文学与审美的思维方式和价值标准。因此，网络文学如何在持守传统的同时坚持创新，便成了一个值得我们深长思之的重要问题。

Online literature contains both traditional text and hypertext. While traditional text containing ＂hypertextuality＂ provides the foundation for online literature, hypertext as the prevalent signifying medium of the cyberworld has awakened the latent energy and spirit of traditional text, making the latter more open, more autonomous and more interactive. The literature of ＂bits＂ points to the direction of future development. It deconstructs the traditional and overturns the nature of things through decentered ＂online reading and writing＂ that is uncertain and nonlinear. Hand in hand with post-modernism, hypertext has transformed literature＇s context and mode of existence. Above all, the shift to hypertext in online literature is transforming our mode of thinking and value criteria in relation to literature and aesthetics. We should therefore conduct in-depth and long-term explorations of how online literature may innovate while maintaining tradition.