出版与文化政治:清末出版的生殖医学书籍及其读者

Publishing and Cultural Politics:The Books on Reproductive Medicine and Their Readership in Late Qing

在晚清中国,当时的知识精英生产了大量的种族论述,以激励中国人强种、爱国。清末文化市场上出版的生殖医学书籍也自觉承担了类似功能,不过却少有研究者注意到这些书籍。实际上,这些书籍的内容与出版广告也大都将自己的著译、出版目的同种族、国家联系起来,以来自西方(包括日本)的"科学"和医学知识作为依据,注重改良传种、"优生优育"的实行方法。可以说,这些书籍在近代中国文化史上具有重要含义,既昭示着近代中国人急于强国、强种的集体心态,也昭示当时出版和文化政治的勾连情形。这些书籍的出版情况如何?内容怎样?当时人是如何看待与阅读这些书籍?其出版意义何在?同样值得我们去探究。

There are many national discourse fabricated by intellectuals with the expectation of national strengthening and booming patriotism in Late Qing period.The books on reproductive medicine of that time fit well in this framework,which received yet less than enough academic notice.In fact,the authors and publishers articulated their national and statal concerns,believing that practical ways of racial upgrading and eugenics were to be found in the Western "scientific" knowledge,sometimes via Japan.These books w...