科学宗教互为表里,新说传入已为旧知——试论丁韪良在《尚贤堂（新学）月报》上的文章

戊戌变法时期,时在北京的美国传教士丁韪良主办了《尚贤堂（新学）月报》,通过寓言和新闻报道,发表了对中国改革变法的建议,同时也向中国人介绍了一系列西方科学知识。本文通过将这些内容与丁韪良以往著作相比较,发现＂科学知识＂大部分出自于他二三十年前的出版物中,不但在知识更新上表现出滞后性,而且杂糅着宗教思想,最终这些出于宣教目的的文化和政治建议未能引起读者的关注,故而《尚贤堂（新学）月报》在中国近现代报刊史上影响甚微。

Martin＇s Articles on the ＂Shangxiantang （New Learning） Monthly＂：A Critical Comment

During The Reform Movement Period（1897-1898）in Beijing,American missionary Martin edited ＂ Shangxiantang（New Learning）Monthly＂.The journal aired out his proposals on Chinese reform and introduced Western scientific knowledge via allegories and news reports.Looking back to the editor＇s previous works,we have found that so-called ＂scientific knowledge＂ most came from his publications two decades earlier than Shangxiantang（New Learning）Monthly.On the one hand,the knowledge was not updated;on the other hand,the knowledge was intermingled with religious preaching.These cultural and political proposals failed to arouse the readers＇ attention and Shangxiantang（New Learning）Monthly left little influence on the development of modern Chinese journalism.