Midnight is the earliest novel in the proletarian revolutionary literature movement since the May 4th Movement. With Marxism–Leninism as the guiding ideology, the author stood at the height of the times and used the creative method of revolutionary realism to reflect the vast social life of old China in the early 1930s historically, concretely and profoundly, and successfully shaped the typical image of the national bourgeoisie. The publication of Midnight paved the way for the development of proletarian revolutionary literature in China, and also marked the maturity of Mao Dun's creation.

Li's Big Waves Wash the Sand (a stagnant pool, before a storm, big waves), Ba Jin's Riptide Trilogy, Mao Dun's Midnight and Lao She's Camel Xiangzi all came out in the 1930s, which marked the maturity of China's modern novels with their own unique artistic styles.

This is China's first successful realistic novel ... applying real social science to express China's social relations and class relations in literature and art, Midnight is a great achievement. -Qu Qiubai

The brushwork is in full swing, the posture is beautiful, and the pulse is uncontrollable. And its subtlety can be restored in many ways, which is extremely valuable. -Wu Mi

I have a feeling that he (Mao Dun) wrote Midnight, which has both the spirit of literary and art workers and the spirit of scientists writing papers. -Ye Shengtao

Midnight is a masterpiece of world literature in the 20th century, which can be compared with Memories of Time Past and One Hundred Years of Solitude. -Ichiro Nida