晚清段芝贵贿赂案与《杨翠喜》小说——以新闻为小说的范例

段芝贵贿赂案是晚清的一个重大政治事件,由于朝廷袒护亲贵,草率结案塞责,招致朝野的普遍不满与失望。《杨翠喜》便是对这一案件的及时反映,小说作者把准了大众的心理需求,汇集各种与杨翠喜有关的史料、传记、小说、诗词、评论等,既满足了人们了解事实真相的欲望,又达到了泄愤的目的,因此风行一时。虽然此部大杂烩的小说,艺术上殊乏可以称道之处,但却保留了不少罕见的史料,也对认识晚清如何将新闻转化为小说的这一商品生产模式具有一定的学术意义。

Duan Zhigui Bribery Case in the Late Qing Dynasty and the Novel Yang Cuixi

Duan Zhigui bribery case was a major political event in the late Qing Dynasty,which aroused widespread dissatisfaction with the government and disappointment due to the hasty and unfair settlement. The novel Yang Cuixi timely reflected on this case. The writer brought together a variety of historical materials related to the case not only to meet the people＇s desire to know the truth,but also to reach the purpose of venting their anger.Therefore,this novel turned out very popular. Although this portion of the novel hodgepodge lacks praiseworthy artistic value,it retains a lot of rare historical data. More importantly,it has some academic reference value on understanding the novel mode of commodity production from the news in the late Qing Dynasty.