晚清科技期刊与西方林学的引进--基于《格致汇编》《农学报》的考察

Sci-tech Periodicals and the Introduction of Western Forestry Science in the Late Qing Dynasty:Based on the Investigation of Gezhi Compilation and Agricultural Journal

西方林学在晚清时期的引进,经历了一个先疏后密、由浅到深、由表及里的过程。而科技期刊则是这一时期引进西方林学的重要载体。其中,《格致汇编》最早刊载了林学科普文章,而《农学报》则较为集中地引进了西方林学。它们所引进的更多是一些林学知识和原理,对林学内涵和研究等方面则涉及甚少。这一时期对林学的引进以机械的介绍和翻译为主,停留在纸面上,脱离了中国的实际。这种状况直到留学生的大量归国才得到了根本性的转变。

The introduction of western forestry science in the late Qing Dynasty experienced a process shifting from less to more,from shallow to deep,and from the surface to the inside.The sci-tech periodicals were an important carrier for the introduction of western forestry science during this period.The Gezhi Compilation was the first periodical publishing popular science articles on forestry,while the Agricultural Journal introduced more intensively western forestry science.The two journals focused more on introducing forestry knowledge and principles,but less on the connotation and research on forestry.The introduction of western forestry science in this period was mainly in a literal manner of introduction and translation,which was just staying on paper and lost touch with China’s reality.This situation did not get changed fundamentally until a large number of foreign students returned home.