Abstract:
The four eminent novel magazines in the late Qing Dynasty is an important area of the current literature and its dissemination study. There are two accesses to such studies, novel texts that appeared in these magazines and the magazines themselves as the object of study. The first access is timeconsuming and fruitful and takes the dominant place in study of this area but offers little hope for further innovative explorations. The second access, however, was introduced much later and has contributed few fruitful and systematic results, but it is of methodological significance to breaking the disciplinary limitations by attempting to highlight effects of the novel magazines as one of mass media in early days on literary production and dissemination. For the underdevelopment of the second access of study, an important means and perspective is to deeply interpret the value and significance of the four eminent novel magazines in the late Qing Dynasty from a perspective of modernistic theory by the new methods of dissemination science, journalology and redactology and publishing science.
