When the Chinese novel first appeared, writers of Liang Chi-chao's and Lu Hsun's generation called passionately for literature to be used to save the nation, and later politics has given either pressure or encouragement to novels and literature. These phenomena have continued right into the early 1990's.
小說起來時，梁啟超、魯迅那一輩文人強烈呼籲要用文學救國，之後政治給予小說、文學壓力或鼓勵，各種現象一直到八十年代初期。