商务印书馆与清末新式教科书的发展

Commercial Press and the development of new textbooks in the late Qing Dynasty

清末“新政”时期 ,各类新式学堂纷纷设立 ,急需适宜的教科书以满足新设课程的需要。商务印书馆应时而起 ,顺应时代潮流 ,荟萃专家学者 ,积极创新 ,编辑出版了一批内容新颖、门类齐全、形式多样的教科书 ,有力地推动了我国近代自编新式教科书的进程 ,对新教育的发展起了重要作用。

A lot of new schools were set up during the “new deal”period in the late Qing Dynasty and there was a great demand of new textbooks to meet the needs of new courses.Commercial Press was born at the right moment and it took advantage of a turn of the situation by gathering many outstanding scholars who served as professional textbook writers and compiled textbooks with new contents.What Commencial Press olid gave a great push to the compliation of modern textbooks in China,which played an important role in the development of education.