近代京津地区英文报的舆论与外交评析

京津地区的英文报是近代中国政府利用舆论辅助中国外交的典型案例。通过分析说明在地理位置、读者群、资金来源、记者专业背景等因素的影响下,京津地区近代英文报主要为政治外交服务。在各国势力于该地区设立舆论机关、维护本国利益、干扰中国内政外交的复杂局面下,中国政府也采取了自办英文报、利用外报言论、控制外报发行渠道等手段,影响国际舆论,保护本国利益,在一定程度上对中国外交发挥了积极作用。

English Press and Diplomacy in Peking & Tientsin

The opinions of English newspapers in Peking &; Tientsin had greatly influenced t he diplomacy of Chinese government in the early 20th century. This article analy zes the geographical features, readers, financial sources, and the journalists’ backgrounds to illustrate the political and diplomatic purposes of those Englis h newspapers. The opinion sovereignty of China was greatly damaged due to their free comments. To confront this disadvantage in diplomacy, Chinese government to ok several measures like publishing our own English newspapers, taking advantage of foreign newspapers’ opinions, and restricting the postal system of the fore ign newspapers so that they may be of service to the Chinese diplomacy to a cert ain degree.