The End Of The Qing Republic Of China Newspapers Yanqingxiaoshuo Study

Romantic fiction once dominated the trend at the turn from Qing dynasty to the Republic of China during the evolution of Chinese literature from ancient to modern, and initially completed the transition from ancient novels to modern novels, taking an important place in popular fiction. In this process, the consciousness of genre fiction rooted in the fiction tradition played an important role. Chinese tradition of romantic fiction includes part of San Yan and Er Pai, Caizi-Jiaren novels, Dreams of the Red Mansion, Hua Yue Hen and other works with a wide-ranging implication. Authors, readers and critics at the turn from Qing dynasty to the ROC were conscious of genre fiction, which led to the realization, inheritance and transformation of the tradition of romantic fiction that was regarded as literature resources for a type of modern fiction. On the other hand, the creation and dissemination of novels centered in newspapers and periodicals at that time, which not only changed the way of published works, but also constructed a new "author-work-the reader"relationship. The interaction between the press media and novel formed the situation and power which supported the transformation of tradition.This thesis is on romantic fiction on newspapers and periodicals between 1901-1917. With the basis of the text and the corresponding reserach on the history of press and literature, it analyze the causes and process of the combination of novels and the press, discusses the influence of the press editors, authors and readers to the historic process of the rise of romantic fiction on newspapers and periodicals, examine characteristics and new changes of the novels on themes, values, narrative, style or other aspects for clue to the creative transformation of the tradition of romantic fiction, and then explains the transformation to a type of modern fiction as well as its historical significance.