《广益丛报》与晚清中国西藏的社会变迁

The Newspaper "Guang Yi Cong Bao" and the Social Changes of Tibet of China in the Late Qing Dynasty

1904年英国军队开进拉萨,对西藏发动了第二次战争,从而使涉藏问题更加复杂化。面对涉藏问题,上海等地的各类报刊给予了及时全面的报道。杨庶堪等一批开明人士,虽处于相对闭塞的重庆,却能创办《广益丛报》,并通过该报把上海等地的各类报刊关于涉藏问题的报道继续传播到以重庆为中心的许多城市。《广益丛报》揭露英帝国主义对西藏的侵略;报道中国政府治理西藏的得失;介绍民间对涉藏问题的关注;记载驻藏官员对外国媒体介绍治藏"新政";强调主权的不可侵犯。一百多条共四万多字的报道是我们今天研究晚清涉藏问题的重要资料,亦可以作为批判"西藏独立"论的有力证据。

British troops marched into Lhasa in 1904 and launched the second war on Tibet.It complicated the Tibetan issue,which was given a timely and full report in the newspapers and periodicals of Shanghai and other places.A group of open-minded people,like Yang Shukan,living in Chongqing,a comparatively closed place,started a newspaper ＂Guang Yi Cong Bao＂,which followed the newspapers and periodicals of Shanghai and other places to report the Tibetan issue in order to have the readers in many other cities around Chongqing get to know it.This newspaper exposed the British imperialist＇s aggression in Tibet,and discussed the success and failure of the Chinese government＇s administration on Tibet.It also illustrated ordinary people＇s attention toward the Tibetan issue and reported the ＂new policies＂ practiced by the officials resident of Tibet.It kept stressing on the inviolability of the sovereignty.There are more than one hundred reports about the Tibetan issue in the newspaper with more than forty thousand words,which is important material for us to study the issues of Tibet in the late Qing Dynasty and also can be used as powerful evidence to criticize the view of ＂Tibet is independent＂.