On the significance of Wu Jianren′s short stories in the sense of literary history

As an essential part of the New Novels in the Late Qing Dynasty,Wu Jianren′s short stories distinguish themselves from traditional ones in subject matters and thematic implications as well as narrative methods,narrative structure and narrative time.They find themselves between traditional style and modern style at the turn of the century.Wu Jianren blew up a light storm with his own creations in the Late Qing Dynasty and found a way out of the stalemate in the development of Chinese short stories.