中国早期科幻小说的科学观

Image of Science in Early Chinese Science Fiction Texts

本文选取了两部发表于1904-1905年间的中国科幻小说创始作,通过探讨中国早期科幻创作中的诸多现象,对其中科学观的复杂表现做了重点分析。一方面,不能抹杀早期科幻小说的启蒙意义;另一方面,早期科幻作品与文化精英在科学观方面的认知差距,导致精英们最终放弃了对科幻小说的推广,这在一定程度上也预示了中国科幻的未来命运。

This paper discusses the image of science in the first two texts, which been published around 1904--1905. In these works, science acts as a moral, wizard existence with full of localized knowledge. Because the hard core of science in these works is far from modern science, making the development of the Chinese science fiction lose its espouse of intellectuals and imply the future fate.