晚清小说空前繁荣 ,作为一位影响很大的谴责小说家 ,除《官场现形记》外 ,李伯元的《文明小史》同样具有研究价值。《文明小史》采用现实生活中的真人真事为创作素材 ,最早从维新的角度 ,全面揭示了维新时期的种种社会现象 ,是一部反映晚清社会的代表作品 As an influential censure novelist, novels of the late Qing Dynasty were unprecedentedly prosperous. Apart from the “Bureaucrats”, Li Boyuan’s “History of Civilizations” also has research value. “History of a Small Civilized Civilization” uses real-life real life events as creative materials, and at the earliest, from a reforming perspective, it comprehensively reveals various social phenomena in the reform period and is a representative work reflecting the society in the late Qing Dynasty