晚清翻译文学的空前繁荣,带动了文学理论建设。除梁启超等人的小说理论之外,一些译家在序跋、评语、随感和其他论述中,也开始注意介绍欧美小说家及其作品。但到辛亥革命时期为止,还没有一本较系统介绍西方文学的专著问世。近代翻译史上这一空白,由孙毓修的《欧美小说丛谈》填补了 The unprecedented prosperity of translation literature in the late Qing dynasty led to the construction of literary theory. In addition to Liang Qichao’s novels, some translators also began to introduce European and American novelists and their works in prefaces and postscripts, commentaries, and other discourses. However, up to the Revolution of 1911, there was not yet a monograph that systematically introduced western literature. In the history of modern translation, this gap was filled by Sun Yuxiu’s “European and American Fictions”