The Situation and Trend of Chinese Network Literature Based on the Analysis of the Big Data

After more than 20 years of accumulation and development, Chinese network literature has produced a number of outstanding writers and a series of high-quality network literature works. Network literature has been supported by national policies and recognized by the mainstream. The number of network literature writers continues to grow and high-quality works continue to emerge. With the rapid development of network literature, there are still some outstanding problems: the provision of high-quality content is still insufficient to meet people's strong demand for a better life. Frequent infringement and plagiarism are the main obstacles to development; the price of intellectual property is inflated; and the evaluation system is neither perfect nor professional. From a long-term perspective, big data analysis shows that the integration and development of network literature and traditional literature will be an inevitable choice for network literature. With the intensification of the hierarchy of network writers, network literature will gradually enter the world and become a new academic hotspot in literary criticism. Since the emergence of Chinese cyber literature in 1998, a total of 16.47 million network literary works and 1.327 million contracted works had been produced by the end of 2017. A group of excellent network literature writers and a series of high quality network literature works had also been produced. In a sense, network literature has changed the development pattern of contemporary Chinese literature to a certain extent. It has been called one of the "four cultural phenomena in the world " in conjunction with Hollywood blockbusters, Japanese animation and Korean dramas^[1].