一九六○年代，美國盛行一種新文體－新新聞。 本論文係研究此種新文體之中國先驅者李寶嘉之寫作生涯。李寶嘉係晚清小說家兼新聞工作者，他積極參與晚清變遷時期的維新（改革）運動。身為暴露小說之大師，他暴露當代中國社會最醜陋之一面－－科舉與官場。身為實用主義者，他充滿使命感，努力呈現社會的巨觀面向，而非探索人性的微觀面向。分析研究他集新聞工作者、小說家及散文家於一身的寫作生涯，我們確信李寶嘉是中國文學史上的哥倫布以及中國的新新聞先驅者。

　　　　　This is a biographical and cirtical study on Li Pao-chia as a pioneer of new journalism in China--a new form of narrative flourishing in the United States in the 1960s. Li Pao-chia, a juornalist and novelist in late Ch'ing dynasty, was involved in the reforming movement in the transitional period of Chinese history--the ending of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century. As master of novels of exposure, he exposed one of the most defective aspects of contemporary Chinese society, the old system of examination and bureaucracy. As pragmatist, he felt the sense of mission. He tried to reproduce the social macrocosm rather than to explore the human microcosm. Li Pao-chia is a writer of the documentary novels, and a social historial as well. His achievement lies in the preservation of the miscellaneous data of the the political and social lives of late Ch'ing dynasty. Through the anlaytical research of his life-span career as a journalist, novelist and essayist, we are sure that Li is a Columbus in the history of Chinese literature--a pioneer of new journalism in China.