当晚清海归开始着意于开掘小说所谓举足轻重的价值时,他们面对着两种小说传统:文人的传统与大众的传统。本着启蒙的初衷,海归们几乎一眼便相中了大众旨归的传统,而无条件无限时地搁置了文人传统。这一取舍对于中国小说历史过去之回应与未来之影响的意义都是深刻和深远的。小说传统中文人旨趣的被搁置使得笔记体小说在晚清的式微成为在所难免的事。相反地,应着启蒙的要求,通俗的历史演义小说却在这时被提出和强调起来。 At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, when they began to explore the pivotal value of novels, they faced two kinds of novel tradition: the literati tradition and the mass tradition. In the original intention of enlightenment, the returnees almost at a glance have taken the tradition of the general public, unconditional unconditional shelve the literati tradition. The significance of this trade-off to the future response and future impact of Chinese novel history is both profound and far-reaching. The novel’s traditional Chinese interest has been shelved so that the novel style of the novels in the late Qing Dynasty is an inevitable thing. On the contrary, at the request of enlightenment, popular novels of historical novels were raised and emphasized at this time.