论《中国丛报》的历史及其文化价值

The Brief History of China Repository and Its Cultural Value

美国在立国不久后,与晚清时期的中国开展了商贸和宗教的民间活动,进而开启了中美条约外交关系。《中国丛报》是美国传教士于1832年在广州开办的一份英文报刊,对当时中国历史和现实进行了学理化和新闻性的记载和报道。在其存续的20余年间,《中国丛报》既为中美关系发展起到了一定的推动作用,也是中美文化交流的一个重要窗口,特别是为美国早期汉学的诞生起到了筚路蓝缕的拓荒作用。

Not long after its establishment,the United States of America carried out commercial and religious non-governmental activities with China in the late Qing Dynasty,which in turn forged the Sino-US treaty diplomatic relations.Founded by American missionaries in Guangzhou in 1832,China Repository was an English newspaper.It recorded and reported on the history and reality of China at that time.In the more than 20 years of its existence,China Repository has not only played a certain role in promoting the development of Sino-US relations,but also an important window for Sino-US cultural exchanges.In particular,China Repository has made painstaking efforts and played a pioneering role in the birth of early sinology in the United States of America.