梁启超为什么能推动近代小说的发展

Liang Qi-chao:the Promoter to Modern Chinese Fiction

晚清的小说出现了前所未有的繁荣,这一繁荣与当时的城市发展市民人口的增长并不同步,而是由梁启超发动的小说界革命所推动的。梁启超的努力适应了当时小说家安身立命的需要,他们自觉响应梁启超,政治小说成为当时小说的核心。梁启超的小说观念适应了士大夫文学观念的需要,他们抛弃了鄙视小说的看法,参与到小说的创作和阅读中来,他们对梁启超的认同,大大扩大了小说的市场,帮助小说繁荣。

Fiction in the late Qing Dynasty displayed an unprecedented popularity. It was promoted by Liang Qi-chaos revolution in fiction. Due to his propose, many writers took the destiny of their country as their own and wrote a lot of popular fiction centered on politics. Also his view of fiction reversed a trend of many scholar-officials looking down upon fiction. Not only did they read fiction but also they wrote fiction themselves. Thus the market of fiction was enlarged greatly.