Another level of discussion which I would like to develop is the incredible power to save the nation and to change people's lives which was ascribed to fiction by writers in the period from the late Ching dynasty to the time of Lu Hsun. This tradition of sympathy for the problems of the time and concern for the fate of the nation has continued unbroken to the present day.
另一層我希望發展的辯證是，從晚清到魯迅那一代的文人，賦予小說不可思議的救國救民、改變人生的能力，這種感時憂國的傳統到今天還沒有斷。