洋务运动与近代小说理论批评的新变

Westernization Movement & New Change of Modern Novel Theory Criticism

第二次鸦片战争后,洋务运动兴起。清政府建立外交机构;开办同文馆;派遣留学生;兴办机器制造工业;设立译书局翻译西书;……当时的这些重大政策调整和举措,导致人们的思想观念发生很大变化;由卑洋、拒洋,转而学洋、通洋。其时创办的众多报刊又对文学作品（包括雅俗共赏的小说）产生广泛需求。于是,此前仍保留着古代传统面貌的小说理论批评发生新变化,开始引进、借鉴西方小说理论。

After 'The Second Opium War', the Westernization movement has developed. The Qing government began to set up diplomatic service and foreign language school. At the same time, the government also began to set up machine manufacture, and translate foreign books into Chinese. These change of government's policy made people change their notion. They began to study from overseas. Then the newspaper demand more and more literary works, including novel. Then the newspaper demand more and more literary works, including novel. Then, the theory of novel arise some new change, the western country's theory of novel is coming.