The social novels of the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China are different from the traditional novels in the aspects of theme,artistic creation and so on.Taking the social novels from 1896-to year 1916 ranging twenty years as the research object,this paper summarizes the ideological content of the social novels and probes into the artistic creation techniques of the social novels in order to analyze the reasons for the rise of the social novels,and to expound the modernity of the social novels.Besides,it analyzes its role in the transformation of modern Chinese novels and its influence on modern literature.Paper Chapter 1.This paper analyzes the reasons for the rise of social novels in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China.As the rise of the novel revolution and the introduction of Western civilization the content of social fiction creations were expanded.,The rise of newspaper and periodicals was the main way to spread social novels in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China,and also promoted the prosperity and flourish of social novels.At the same time,there were many excellent professional novelists.Paper Chapter 2.The ideological content of social novels is summarized.The ideological content of social novels is enriched,reflecting reality in detail,exposing social darkness,advocating female liberation and modernity of educational concepts,and reflecting social phenomena by describing the people at the bottom.Among them,the collision between the traditional thought and the new thoughts is inevitable.In the novel,the author elaborately shows the social scene of the underclass people suffering,social darkness,women’s foot-binding and women’s liberation in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China.It is not difficult to insight that social novels have a wide range of contents,reflecting the social pictures incisively and vividly.Meantime,the paper reflects the writer’s urgent desire to awaken the people’s consciousness through the realistic revelation of reality.Paper Chapter 3..This paper mainly explores the atistic techniques of creative novels reflecting certain social background.The first one is the change of narrative structure from situation to situation.On the basis of positive narration,narration appears more and more frequently,and narrative angle also appears first person,which simplifies the original narrative system.Secondly,it strengthens the use of expressive techniques through detailed depiction,portrait and psychological description,and environmental description,which lays a foundation for the development of modern literature. |