Though there are many studies on Austen in Western, the studies on Austen only emerge in recent twenty or thirty years in China. Chinese critics has showed increasingly rising 

Chinese critics has showed increasingly rising interests in Emma since the implementation of the reform and opening up policies in 1978, and there are 237 essays about this book since 2000. The researches on Emma in china focus on the following aspects: theme, feminism, characterization and narration. 源[自-吹冰*`论/文'网·www.chuibin.com/

Since 1920’s, the subject of marriage has become the investigative hot spot and has reached the peak at the turn of the century. In the article ‘Views on Love and Marriage of Austen-Analysis on the love of Pride and Prejudice and Emma’ (2013), Dong Na indicates to investigate the views on love and marriage of Austen by comparing the heroines’ marriage. Xu Qi, in her ‘The View of Marriage and Environment in Austen’s Emma(2011)’, tried to reveal the social status’ impact on marriage. Other critics, such as Zhao Li&Zhang Wenbo(2009), Zheng Shufang(2011), devote to investigate Austen’s feminism ideas by analyzing the marriage and character of heroines. Also, others focus on the characterization of heroine, Emma. Li Yunxia(2002), Bu Yayun(2012) investigate Emma’s figure and character and also analyze the heroine using the theory of initiation story, resulting in the boom of initiation story in China. 

However, only a few articles analyze Emma concerning the narrative methods. There are fewer pure narratological criticism at home. As for Aboard, according to Bruce Stovel, there are only two treatise written from narratogical perspective: Lloyd Brown’s Bits of Ivory; Narrative Techniques in Jane Austen’s Fiction(1973) and T.G.Wallace’s Jane Austen and Narrative Authority(1995). 

Meanwhile, other articles discussed about Austen’s narrative strategy. But few talk about the use of free indirect speech in Emma.