明末清初时事小说近来受到了研究者的关注,本文将时事小说作为一个文学现象,纳入到整个小说史视野中,梳理唐人小说、宋人话本、明代小说(包括白话和文言)及晚清小说是如何以小说方式讲述时事的,借此管窥小说史视野中时事小说作为一个新的文学现象,其萌芽、发展、变化的规迹。 In the late Ming dynasty and early Qing dynasty, current novels have received the attention of researchers. In this paper, current novels are regarded as a literary phenomenon into the perspective of the whole history of fiction. They comb the novels of the Tang Dynasty, the scripts of the Song Dynasty, the novels of the Ming Dynasty (including vernacular and classical Chinese) How Qingshi novels narrate current affairs in the novel way, so as to provide a glimpse of current affairs novels in the perspective of novel history as a new literary phenomenon, its germination, development and change.