中国近代博览会事业的流变

The Disintegration of Modern Chinese Exposition Career

中国早期参加世界博览会,主要是在海关洋员的把持下进行,当时一度被称为"赫德之赛会"。中国自行举办博览会则滥觞于20世纪初。1910年以前,中国的商品赛会几乎没有按章而设,直到1928年的中华国货展览会,中国博览会事业才步入制度化的轨道。随着抗日战争的爆发,博览会事业停滞,直到改革开放以后,博览会事业得以复兴。博览会具有经济和文化双重内涵,它是生产力发展和近代中西文化交流的产物。经济发展状况、区位条件、制度条件、政治环境和技术水平是影响博览会活动顺利进行的重要因素。博览会与中国社会经济发展、人们观念行为的演进之间基本上处于良性互动的关系。

Before the 1910s, the institutionalized commodities fairs were rarely seen in China. The Exhibition of Chinese National Products held in 1928 signified that the institutionalized fair was introduced into China. But after the outbreak of the anti-Japanese war, China’s fair industry had entered into its long period of stagnation. After almost four decades, along with China s reform and opening up, China’s fair industry was rejuvenated. The thriving advancement of Chin s fair industry after the reform and open...