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.
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".
I can tell by the look on your face that I'm going to have to write an afterword to the paperback.