论《东方》杂志的文献价值

《东方》杂志是中国自有杂志以来存在时间最长的一种，在近代中国期刊出版界和思想文化史上，占有极其重要的历史地位。在出版期刊方面，它像一本“杂志的杂志”，具有工具书的性质；在政治倾向上有联络东亚，反对西方的演变轨迹；在思想文化领域，不仅留下当时国内外重大事件的报道与评论，而且在“新学”与“旧学”之争及随后东西文化大论战中，亦有身与其中和思想引导两方面的影响。

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“The orient Magazine”was one of the magazines which had existed for the longest time since China had magazines during the modern times,it had played an extremely important historic role in Chinese periodicals and thought-cultuer.In periodicals,it looked like a “magazine of magazine”because it has the qualities of reference books;In political trends,it showed the changing traces of communication with East-Asia and opposal of the Western;In the field of thought-culture,it not only left plenty of reports and remarks of great events that took place at home and abroad at that time,but also entered into and influenced thoughtfully on the controversies of “Old Chinese Learning”and “Western Learning”and those of Eastern-Western culture.