晚清印刷技术的提高及其对小说的影响

作为新闻出版事业所赖以生存和发展的物质技术基础,晚清印刷业对于小说事业的兴盛发生了重要影响。进入19世纪以来,由于西方机械印刷术的输入,我国的印刷事业有了突飞猛进的发展。以活版铅印和石印为主要方式的近代化印刷体系已经开始建立。较之古代的手工抄写和木刻线装,规模化的机器复制方式在文化传播方面具有明显的优势。有了近代化的印刷事业作基础,发行量一天天扩大的近代化报刊和平装书的大量产生才会成为可能,以报刊和平装书为主要载体的晚清小说事业才可能繁荣兴盛。

Progress of the Late Qing Dynasty's Printing Typography and Its Effect on Novel

Being the material and technical basis for the existence and development of press and publication industry,the printing technology in the late Qing Dynasty plays a very important role for the development of novel writing.After entering the 19th century,printing industry in China developed rapidly with the introduction of western machinery printing technology.The modern printing system has been established with typographic printing and lithographic printing as the main methods.Compared with manual writing and wood-cutting technology,the copying process completed by machines has presented great advantages in the spreading of culture and media.With the modern printing technology as the base,the large-number publication of modern newspapers and books can become the reality,and the novels in the late Qing Dynasty that took newspapers and books as the carriers will become prosperous.