试论晚清官办出版活动及其历史地位

On Government-run Presses and Their Historical Status in Late Qing Dynasty

摘要

摘要:晚清官办出版系统之完善为历代封建王朝所仅有。图书出版机构包括武英殿、京师同文馆、江南制造局翻译馆、各官书局和官办书院等; 报刊出版机构主要是中央各部与各省创办的官报。官办出版活动虽然意在巩固晚清政府的封建统治,但同时也传播新知、开启民智,客观上成为推进社会进步的重要力量。

Abstract:The official-run publishing system was the most perfect in feudal China. The publishing organizations included Wuying Palace, Capital Translation and Publishing House, Translation House of Jiangnan Manufacture Bureau, and the other official-run publishing bureau and academic centers. The journalism publishing organizations were mainly the newspapers run by various departments of central government and provinces. Though such government-run publishing organizations intended to maintain the feudal government of late Qing Dynasty, they disseminated new knowledge, inspired the masses and became an important force to drive the society forward objectively.