南京新民报馆

Nanjing Xinmin Newspaper Office is a publishing institution closely associated with modern popular literature. Because public information is limited, details such as its founding year, location, and institutional history cannot be described in detail here. The books currently in the collection, however, show that the publisher focused on classic literary works, especially full-length novels with a tradition of social satire and popular narrative. Its representative book is Zhang Henshui's Eighty-One Dreams, a work that portrays social conditions through allegory and reflects the close connection between the publisher and popular-literary authors. Zhang Henshui was a major writer of modern popular literature whose vivid plots and fluent language won him a broad readership. In its book selection and publishing, Nanjing Xinmin Newspaper Office showed an affinity for urban readers' tastes and an emphasis on readability, providing a channel for the circulation of classic works.