In the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China,novelists preferred to choose contemporary news as the subject matter which made their novels rely on news information to show the real world.Influenced by hot news and news narrative,the modern Chinese novels formed an inter-textual writing strategy by following the news,an encyclopedic narrative style and a theme of popular textbooks.However,this superficial reality supported by news information failed to change the focus of modern novels from narrative to human,and was also unable to reverse the narrative stance of instrumentalism in modern novels.Even more,it shattered the artistic originality of the modern Chinese novels which made press copies without any artistic halo.Because of the news,the information and ethics of modern Chinese novels are far beyond their aesthetic value.Thus,although the news enhanced fiction’s ability to intervene in the reality,they could not have completed the modern transformation of the aesthetic of Chinese novels.