“农村问题”是目前中国现实中的一个尖锐问题 ,也是学界讨论的一个“热点”话题 ,而在文学研究界 ,这却是一个在一定程度上被“遗忘”的“冷门”话题。如何在新的现实和新的学术资源中“重提”这个话题 ?如何重新审视和总结百年中国文学史上对农村的表述 ?如何在新的现实关系中重建对农村的想象和表述 ?是一个沉重而迫切的话题。本期所发的这组文章意在以文学的眼光重新关注这一问题 ,并唤起研究界对这一问题的讨论 The “rural problems” are a sharp issue in present-day China and a “hot topic” discussed by the academic circles. In the field of literary studies, however, this is a “popular” topic that has been “forgotten” to a certain extent. How to “re-emphasize” this topic in new realities and new academic resources? How to re-examine and summarize the rural areas in the history of Chinese literature for centuries? How to reconstruct rural areas in the new realistic relations is a heavy one The urgent topic. This issue of this series of articles is intended to re-focus this issue from a literary perspective and to arouse the discussion in the research community on this issue