最早读夏志清的《中国现代小说史》(以下均简称《小说史》),是20世纪80年代我在读研究生的时候,虽然只是走马观花地浏览了一遍,但有两个印象却十分深刻:一是《小说史》所涉猎的研究范围,要比国内同类题材的现代文学史宽广许多,对于我们这些刚入门的青年学子来说,无疑是极大地开拓了眼界;二是《小说史》的立论颇为大胆,像被国内学界所推崇的文学大师鲁迅、巴金等人他都不以为然或不屑一顾,但对沈从文和张爱玲这些为国内学界陌生的 The earliest reading of Xia Zhiqing’s “History of Modern Chinese Fiction” (hereinafter referred to as the “History of Fiction”) was a time when I was a graduate student in the 1980s. Although I only glanced over, I was very impressed with two : First, the scope of the research covered by “History of Fiction” is much broader than the history of modern literature in the same type of subject in our country. It is undoubtedly a pioneering field for young students like us. The second is “History of Fiction” Of the argument is bold, like the literary masters praised by the domestic academic Lu Xun, Ba Jin, who he did not agree or disdain, but Shen Congwen and Eileen Chang, these are strangers to the domestic academia