承传与扬弃——刘鹗与《老残游记》的现代意义

Inherit and Develop ——The modern value of Liu E and Travels of Lao Can

《老残游记》为大家所熟知,而刘鹗实业家的身份却被忽略。在如何处理传统与现代关系的今天,对刘鹗与《老残游记》进行深层解读便很有必要。他们是19世纪末20世纪初社会转型的产物,也从一个侧面昭示了中国社会的现代化历程。

Travels of Lao Can has been well known to us all,but we are not familiar with Liu E who was also a businessman.Nowadays,confronting with how to deal with the contradiction between tradition and modernity perfectly,it is quite necessary for us to unscramble Liu E and Travels of and Lao Can.They are the result of the social changes at the turn of last century,and demonstrate the modern course of China in one aspect.