清末阅报社团述论

On the Newspaper Reading Clubs in Late Qing Dynasty

阅报社团在清末新政时期的兴起,是近代以来社会启蒙思想在中国传播和实践的产物。戊戌之后白话报刊的崛起促进了以底层社会民众为对象的社会教育活动,在官方和民间人士的共同提倡之下,阅报社团在各地得以广泛组建,其所从事的阅报、讲报活动在清末最后数年间得到了广泛的推广,在增进民众智识与开通社会风气方面起到了一定成效。阅报社团所采用的种种社会动员策略,也为之后的历次民众运动所借鉴,至今依然是行之有效的舆论宣传模式。

The rise of newspaper reading clubs in late Qing dynasty is a product of dissemination of enlightenment thought in modern China. Ever since Wuxu Political Reform, the vernacular newspaper had been evoking the educational activities aimed at people from lower class. With the advocation and support from myriad social circles, various newspaper reading clubs got established across the country in early 20th century, and the activities they engaged in such as news proliferating, public propaganda, mass movement launching, etc. have influenced the whole society, and the tactics adopted by sponsors of these reading clubs to mobilize participants also have been inherited by successors in the following mass movements.