清末民初的读者转向、读者想象与读者取向

在清末民初中国社会的现代转型中，文学受众尤其是读者群体发生了以“文人读者分化”和“市民读者的扩张”为两大趋势的转向。这一“读者转向”，促成了完全不同于前代的“读者想象”、“读者取向”的发生，并间接或直接地影响到清末民初的文学诉求和走向。在“文学改良”倡导乃至“通俗小说”的兴起中，都可以看到读者的转向、想象乃至取向对于清末民初文学生态、生产乃至文学格局、文学变迁的影响。

Readers’ Shifts,Imaginations and Selections of the Late Qing and the Early Republic Period

In the modern turn of the late Qing and the early Republic period’s Chinese society,literary audience,especially readers’ group made two major shifts of direction——one is the polarization of literati readers,and the other is the expansion of urban readers.These shifts enabled or to say led to the germination of unprecedented reader’s imaginations and selections,and in turn,indirectly or directly influenced the appeal and direction of Late Qing and early Republic period’s literary development. Traces of the influence of readers’ shifts,imaginations and selections on late Qing and early Republic period’s literary atmosphere,production and even system and development could also be found in the advocation of Literary Reformation and the rise of Popular Fiction.