政治小说起源于英国,其意在传播政治观点,表达政治主张。在日本明治维新期间,大量英国政治小说译入日本,对日本社会产生了深远影响。1898年戊戌变法失败后,梁启超为躲避慈禧的迫害而逃亡日本。在日流亡期间,梁启超认识到,要变革中国,“自上而下”的方法是行不通的,只有开启民智,改造人民思想,才能实现国内改革。他将“政治小说”这一概念引入中国,并欲通过兴办报刊,译介政治小说,提高小说的文学地位等举措,借小说中人物之口表达自己的政治意愿,传播政治主张。此外,同时期内有大量外国政治小说通过译介而引入中国。政治小说本文试通过对清末政治小说译介活动的分析,探究政治小说的翻译活动对当时清朝社会所产生的影响以及其自身的局限性。 Political fiction originated in the United Kingdom, its purpose is to spread political views and express political opinions. During the Meiji Restoration in Japan, a large number of British political novels were translated into Japan, which had a profound impact on Japanese society. After the failure of the Reform Movement of 1898 in 1898, Liang Qichao escaped to Japan to escape the CCP’s persecution. During the Japanese exile, Liang Qichao realized that to change China, the “top-down” approach would not work. Only through opening up the people’s wisdom and reforming the people’s thinking would domestic reform be possible. He introduced the concept of “political fiction” into China and attempted to spread his political opinions by expressing his own political will through the establishment of newspapers and periodicals, translating political novels and raising the literary status of fiction. In addition, during the same period a large number of foreign political novels were introduced into China through translation and introduction. Political Fiction This paper attempts to analyze the translation of political novels in the late Qing Dynasty to explore the impact of the translation of political novels on the then Qing society and its own limitations.