民国北派通俗小说勃兴原因与出版特征——以市民阅读最为集中的北方最大商埠天津为例

Causes of Prosperity of Northern Popular Fiction and Publishing Features in the Period of Republic of China——Taking the Case of the Most Concentrated Public Readers in the North's Largest Commercial Port Tianjin

通俗小说是中国现代文学的重要组成部分。民国通俗小说分为南北两派,分别以上海与天津为创作出版中心。南派通俗小说起步较早,在民初至20世纪30年代中期以前形成狂潮。北派通俗小说虽比南派起步晚,但在20世纪30年代以后,却以作品质量胜出南派,至今大多数作品仍在读者中流传。北派通俗小说勃兴原因与清末民初天津报刊业的繁兴与竞争密不可分。大批通俗小说不是由出版机构付梓,而是由各报馆连载后出版单行本,便成为民国时期北派通俗小说创作与出版的最大特征。

Chinese popular fiction is an important part of modern literature. The popular fiction in the Period of Republic of China was divided into North and South factions, respectively taking Tianjin and Shanghai for their publishing center. The South popular fiction took an early start and enjoyed a fanatic popularity from the early Republic Period until the mid 1930s. Although the North popular novels started later than the South, they won over the Southern faction by quality work since the 1930s and still have readers nowadays. The cause of prosperity of North popular fiction was closely related to the thrive and competition of Tianjin newspaper industry in the late Qing and early Republic of China. The large number of popular novels were serialized by the newspaper and followed by the booklet published by the same newspaper office, and thus leaving the Tianjin book publishing industry undeveloped, which became the chief feature of the creation and publishing of the Northern popular novels in the Republic Period.