清末民初小说与报刊业之关系探略

Brief Research on the Relationship between Novels in Late Qing Dynasty and EarlyRepublic of China Newspaper and Periodical Industry

清末民初是中国新闻事业开始发达的时代,与此同时,近代化报刊也逐渐成为当时小说的主要载体和传播媒介。清末民初的小说与报刊业始终保持着密切而微妙复杂的关系。在清末,小说与新闻业呈同步发展的态势;而到民初,与新闻界长期遭受打击和镇压的命运相反,小说事业却进入了蓬勃发展的兴盛时期。清末民初的小说有80%登载在报刊上,民初的登载率又远高于清末。除小说专门杂志外,文艺报刊和报纸副刊以及一些综合性报刊也大量登载小说。其中,小说产量与小说杂志数量的走势基本吻合,这说明小说杂志始终是小说和小说理论发表的最主要阵地。以小说杂志为代表的近代报刊业的兴盛促成了中国小说传播方式的变革,并成为中国小说现代转型的主要载体和推动力量。

China news undertakings began its boom in late Qing Dynasty and earlyRepublic of China,meanwhile,modern newspapers and periodicals gradually becamecarrier and media of the contemporary novels.Novels of late Qing Dynasty andearly Republic of China kept a close and subtle relation with newspaper andperiodical industry.Novels and news undertakings kept the same pace indevelopment in late Qing Dynasty.And in early Republic of China,novelundertakings stepped into a booming era with large numbers of novels published inspecial periodicals and other various magazines.Novel periodicals were always themain front of novels and novel theories.The boom of modern newspaper andperiodical industry represented by novel periodical promoted the reform of thepublication patterns of China novels and became the major carrier and dynamics ofmodern transition of Chinese novels.