关键词: 近代中学, 国文教育, 现代文学, 小说观念

Abstract: School education is especially important in the spreading of modern Western learning into the East. The establishment of educational creeds, the setting of curriculum standards, the compilation of textbooks, and the classroom exercises and assessments would impact the formation of students’ concept of literature. The national language education in e middle schools shape the concept of new literature among the widest group of students. Literature became the art of expressing human emotion and imagination, reflecting social reality and expressing life aspirations, and fiction is a very important genre of literature. The selected texts of both Chinese and translated fictions, together with fiction theories, provide the students with good exposure to the genre, while the interpretation of the texts help them to embrace modern fictions and try to practice this new form of literature, with better understanding of the concept of modern fictions.

Key words: middle school in early modern China, national language education, modern literature, concept of fiction