晚清是中国社会转型的一个特殊时期,传统儒家思想在此也受到了冲击。在大多数晚清文言小说中,作者宣扬“仁爱”“仁义”“仁政”理想的同时,又对科举制度、济世原则等儒家出世标准提出了质疑。这些在王韬的文言小说集《淞滨琐话》文本中有明显的体现。 Late Qing Dynasty was a special period of social transformation in China, where traditional Confucianism was also impacted. In most classical novels of the late Qing Dynasty, while promoting the ideal of “benevolence”, “benevolence” and “benevolent government”, the author also questioned the Confucianism’s birth standard such as the system of imperial examination and Jizhe’s principle. These are obvious manifestations in Wang Tao’s collection of classical novels, “Song Bin Suo Hua.”