晚清小说的起始时间目前学术界尚无统一意见。现以 1 84 0年至 1 871年的小说为参照物 ,以创刊于 1 872年的《申报》发表的小说《谈瀛小录》、《一睡七十年》、《乃苏国奇闻》和我国第一本文艺性杂志《瀛寰琐纪》发表的理论文章《〈昕夕门月 谈〉小叙》、小说《昕夕门月 谈》为依据 ,从小说的观念、内容、题材、体裁、出版形式的变化 ,论证晚清小说应以 1 872年为起始时间。介绍八种论述晚清小说起始观点的著作以供讨论。 At the beginning of late Qing novels at present there is no unified opinion in academia. Now I take the novel from 1884 to 1871 as the reference, with the novel “Tan Ying Xiao Lu”, “I sleep for seventy years” On the basis of the theoretical article “ Xia Syria” and the novel “Xin Xi Men Yue Tan Tan” which is the first literary magazine in China, “Ying Xin Suo Ji Ji” published from the concept, content, theme, Changes in the form of publication, argumentation late fiction should be 1872 as the starting time. Introduce eight kinds of works that discuss the starting point of late Qing novels for discussion.