Communication From The Point Of View To Examine The Development Of Early Qing Popular Fiction

In the ninety three years from Shunzhi to Yongzheng of the beginning of the Chi-Dynasty, there didn' t appear great works like Travel to West, Jinpingmei, Unofficial History of Literary Men and Dreamers in Red House, but in the total, development and flourishing of novels were fare noticeable. This period appeared one hundred and thirty-nine new novels (including newly compose and newly review), among which fifty was republished one or more time (include one time), republished ninety three editions, so This period published two hundred and thirty two novels altogether.This thesis makes inspection on the development of popular novels in the beginning of the Chi-Dynasty from the angles of communication, taking the novel publish as centre. By statistics on the types and numbers of novels published by different regions in the beginning of the Chi-Dynasty with plenty of textual criticisms, obtains that there were one hundred and sixty one novel publishers in the beginning of the Chi-Dynasty, including forty seven publishers in Suzhou, thirty in Hangzhou, twelve in Jiangning , twenty eight in other regions, forty four in regions which names couldn' t be found. Among these publishers, there were thirty seven scholar novel publishers, which published sixty four newly composed novels , republished nine novels; one hundred and twenty four non-scholar novel publishers, which published seventy five newly composed novels , republished eighty four novels among which forty one republished novels were originally composed by scholar novel publishers, so we draw the conclusion that Suzhou and Hangzhou were two publish centre of novels (this two regions published ninety eight newly composed novel and thirty eight republished editions), and the scholar novel publishers played a big role in the novel publish in the beginning of the Chi-Dynasty. Then this thesis inquires into the causes of novel' s development and flourishing in the beginning of the Chi-Dynasty from the angles of communication in the respects of economic and culturalbackground, concrete operations by the scholar novel publishers and related circumstances, suras up as coining under five categories:First, publish centre transferring from Fujian to Jiangzhe.Second, scholar novel publishers involving in novels publish and print division from inscribing.Third, the publisher' s positive accepting the reader' s feedback.Forth, promoting sell activities by the publishers. Fifth, the development of book leasing industry.