中国现代通俗小说最终走向现代,是中国现代文化变迁的成果。在当时的时代、社会、政治影响下,它由最初的强调改良主题(20世纪初期至20年代),转变为作品中充斥着浪漫主义色彩(20至30年代),以及最后表现出对人性、对社会的关切(30至40年代),经历了由浪漫传奇的古典审美传统向人生思考的近代文学传统转变①,这意味着通俗小说已开始具备了现代性的萌芽。 China’s modern popular novels eventually move toward the modern era, which is the result of the changes in modern Chinese culture. Under the prevailing social, political influences of the time, it was transformed from the initial emphasis on the theme of improvement (from the early 20th century to the 1920s) into the romanticism (from the 1920s to the 1930s), and finally the demonstration of human nature, Concerns about the society (from the 30s to the 40s) experienced a shift from a modern aesthetic tradition of romantic legends to modern literary thinking in life, which means that popular novels have begun to possess the seeds of modernity.