西学东渐与晚清小说读者的变化

The Gradual Spread to China of Western Culture and the Change of Novel Readers in Late Qing Dynasty

在近代西学东渐的历史大环境中,晚清小说不仅在向近代转型的士大夫中广泛传播,并拥有一个新的壮观的读者群体———由近代新式学堂培养出来或通过出国留学而形成的新型知识分子。而“小说界革命”以开启民智的宗旨,使之自觉地将读者定位于下层市民,小说开始真正地在广大下层市民中传播开来。因此,晚清小说读者的构成成分已发生明显变化,队伍不断壮大。而这些读者群的知识结构也已经不同程度地受到了当时传入的西学影响。

With the gradual spread to China of western culture,the novel of late Qing not onlywidely spread in the court official,but also had is a newgrand reader s colony---Newˉtype intellectual who graduated from the modern newˉtype school or went abroad to study And the aims to inspire people s intelligence of"the revolution of novel circle"orientated their readers as citizens of lower floor conscientiously,the novel begins to really spread among the citizens of the masses of lower floor.So,the obvious change had already taken place in novel readers constituent in late Qing,the novel reader team was strengthened constantly.And learn to influence in the west the knowledge structures of these readers had already been influenced by western culture in various degree.