传统影响下的维新知识分子办报实践及其公共性

Intellectuals of Reformist ' Practice and Publicity in Running Newspaper Under the Influence of Tradition

中国现代传播媒介的出现,不像西方世界那样是在本土社会背景自然成长起来,而是随着殖民的深入,由传教士带进来。这种新鲜事物在迥异于自己本土的制度环境和历史传统的殖民嫁接中,"公共性"必会发生变异。《时务报》作为维新派的核心刊物,处于转型期维新知识分子,将西方传入的现代传播媒介赋予传统的职能,作为新的资政的途径,成为宣传新观念的工具,公共空间一开始就带上政治化的色彩。根深蒂固的传统影响下的维新知识分子不论观念和办报实践,一开始就和西方传媒的公共性有着差异和距离。

The emergence of China＇s modern media, unlike in the westem world grew up naturally in the local society＇s background environment, but was brought in by the missionaries, with the depth of colonization. The ＂public nature＂ of the new thing that differed from the colonial grafting oF its native system environment and traditions are bound to change. As the Reformer＇ s core publications, ＂Current Affairs Newspaper＂ was in the transition. Restoration intellectuals, which endowed the modem media that was imported from the West with traditional function as a new means of financing government, has become a tool for promoting new ideas. At the beginning, Public Space has brought with political colors. Under the influence of deep - rooted tradition, there exsisted the differences and distances between reformist intellectuals and the public nature of the western media ,no matter on the concept or the operational